Credit: CC0 Public Domain Firms that receive research and development (R&D) credits are much more likely to acquire venture capital (VC) backed startups, alongside investing in their own R&D efforts, according to new research by ESMT Berlin. These findings, available as a working paper, emerge from research by Merih Sevilir, professor of finance at ESMT … Read more
Artist’s illustration of HD 104067 b, which is the outermost exoplanet in the HD 104067 system, and responsible for potentially causing massive tidal energy on the innermost exoplanet candidate, TOI-6713.01. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Can tidal forces cause an exoplanet’s surface to radiate heat? This is what a study accepted to the Astronomical Journal hopes to address … Read more
Schematic illustrating the mechanism of Antarctic Slope Undercurrent formation. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adl0601 New research has uncovered a feedback loop that may be accelerating the melting of the floating portions of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, pushing up global sea levels. The study, titled “Antarctic Slope Undercurrent and onshore heat transport driven by … Read more
Heavy rains have hit southern China, prompting tens of thousands to be evacuated, including in Qingyuan (pictured). Four people are dead and 10 others missing following storms that battered southern China, state media said Monday, with tens of thousands evacuated from areas hit by torrential downpours. Heavy rain has descended upon the vast southern province … Read more
Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) staff cleans up piled up waste from the road side at Ikoyi in Lagos on January 2024. Negotiators from 175 countries are meeting from Tuesday in Canada to nail down a binding global treaty to end plastic pollution with many sticking points to be resolved five months after the … Read more
In a year of contrasting extremes, Europe witnessed scorching heat waves but also catastrophic flooding, withering droughts, violent storms and its largest wildfire. Europe endured a record number of “extreme heat stress” days in 2023, two leading climate monitors said Monday, underscoring the threat of increasingly deadly summers across the continent. In a year of … Read more
1st page of the final letter from George Mallory from Camp I, Everest, to Ruth Mallory, 27 May 1924. Credit: The Master and Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge Letters written by the famous mountaineer George Mallory have been made available to a global audience for the first time, in the centenary year of his fatal … Read more
Galaxy NGC 4383 evolving strangely. Gas is flowing from its core at a rate of over 200 km/s. This mysterious gas eruption has a unique cause: star formation. Credit: ESO/A. Watts et al A team of international researchers studied galaxy NGC 4383, in the nearby Virgo cluster, revealing a gas outflow so large that it … Read more
Credit: Yves Almecija/CNRS The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals and biomolecules on the early Earth, eventually leading to actual organisms. It’s long been suspected that some of these ingredients … Read more
The Arabica coffee plant. Credit: NTU Singapore Arabica coffee is the most economically important coffee globally and accounts for 60% of coffee products worldwide. But the plants it hails from are vulnerable to a disease that, in the 1800s, devastated Sri Lanka’s coffee empire. Now, an international team of researchers co-led by Nanyang Technological University, … Read more
