Many human medications can directly inhibit the growth and alter the function of the bacteria that constitute our gut microbiome. EMBL Heidelberg researchers have now discovered that this effect is reduced when bacteria form communities. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers from EMBL Heidelberg’s Typas, Bork, Zimmermann, and Savitski groups, and many EMBL alumni, including Kiran … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Large amounts of the food we produce do not end up in our stomachs, but in landfills, sewers, or elsewhere. According to the UN, in 2022, this was the fate of 1.05 billion tons of food, which ended up as food waste—corresponding to approximately 132 kg per capita in the world. … Read more
Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter If a midfielder has dominated the discourse surrounding Manchester City, it is not Matheus Nunes. While they await bulletins on the state of … Read more
The large language models that have increasingly taken over the tech world are not “cheap” in many ways. The most prominent LLMs, GPT-4 for instance, took some $100 million to build in the form of legal costs of accessing training data, computational power costs for what could be billions or trillions of parameters, the energy … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The huge and growing toll bottled water is taking on human and planetary health warrants an urgent rethink of its use as 1 million bottles are bought every minute around the globe, with that figure set to rise further still amid escalating demand, warn population health experts in a commentary published … Read more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the buzz phrase of 2024. Though far from that cultural spotlight, scientists from agricultural, biological and technological backgrounds are also turning to AI as they collaborate to find ways for these algorithms and models to analyze datasets to better understand and predict a world impacted by climate change. In a recent … Read more
The paramotorist team in the Peruvian desert. Left to Right: Márcio Aita Júnior, Mike Campbell-Jones and Senderson Laurido. Credit: Mike Campbell-Jones In an innovative paper published today in the journal Plants, People, Planet, scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Huarango Nature and paramotorists from Forest Air, highlight the exciting potential of paramotoring as a … Read more
The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US The US Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution request for a Missouri inmate scheduled to be put … Read more
A new analysis of satellite data finds that the record surge in atmospheric methane emissions from 2020 to 2022 was driven by increased inundation and water storage in wetlands, combined with a slight decrease in atmospheric hydroxide (OH). The results have implications for efforts to decrease atmospheric methane and mitigate its impact on climate change. … Read more
An artistic rendering depicts direct writing using ORNL’s synthescope, a novel microscopy technique, to continuously insert tin atoms into graphene, opening possibilities for materials fabrication atom-by-atom. Credit: Ondrej Dyck/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy A new technology to continuously place individual atoms exactly where they are needed could lead to new materials for devices that address … Read more
