This bar graph shows GISTEMP summer global temperature anomalies for 2023 (shown in yellow) and 2024 (shown in red). June through August is considered meteorological summer in the Northern Hemisphere. The white lines indicate the range of estimated temperatures. The warmer-than-usual summers continue a long-term trend of warming, driven primarily by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. … Read more
Experts call it “economy class syndrome” — but it can happen to anyone in any class of an airplane. Deep vein thrombosis, or DVT as it’s known, occurs when blood clots in one or more veins. It can happen at any time, but people who travel on long-haul flights are at a higher risk because … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Earth will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared, according to an international research team including scientists from The Australian National University (ANU). The … Read more
In this July 2024 image, smoke rises from a wildfire burning in Jasper National Park in Canada. The wildfire devoured up to half of the main town. Images of towering wildfires tearing through forests and leaving a national park in cinders have kept many tourists away, putting one of Canada’s top industries on edge. The … Read more
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar have created a free-to-access online reference tool that scientists around the globe can use for investigating how the human body works at the molecular level and forming hypotheses to test with experimentation. Credit: Suhre/Halama Labs Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar (WCM-Q) have created an intricate molecular … Read more
When Bill Gates dropped out of college to co-found Microsoft, he wasn’t thinking about becoming a billionaire or running a company that’s now valued at more than $3 trillion. Gates, then 20 years old, had a much more “boring” definition of success, he tells CNBC Make It: “Back then, it was just: Is my code … Read more
The vegas’ soil from the highest altitude showed the highest soil organic carbon (SOC) content (A). Warming increased soil respiration rates and this effect was higher in soil from the highest altitude (B). Also, warming affected microbial biomass resulting in a decrease respect to lower temperature treatment (C); however, the biomass-specific soil respiration rates were … Read more
Graphical abstract. Credit: ACS Central Science (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.4c01010 Water polluted with heavy metals can pose a threat when consumed by humans and aquatic life. Sugar-derived polymers from plants remove these metals but often require other substances to adjust their stability or solubility in water. Now, researchers report a sugar-like polymer that traps heavy metals … Read more
Warming temperatures are making farming much more difficult in the tropics. Food systems across island nations in the Caribbean and Pacific are particularly vulnerable, being hit hard by a combination of heat waves, droughts, and unseasonal rain. And the impact of climate change in these areas is likely to increase significantly in the next decade, … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It’d be reasonable to think Washington’s space economy has a lot riding on Boeing’s Starliner, the spacecraft that left two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station and headed back to Earth with an empty cabin Friday. The astronauts were scheduled to return on Starliner in June after a week on … Read more
