Medical personnel use a mammogram to examine a woman’s breast for breast cancer. Hannibal Hanschke | dpa | Picture Alliance | Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO — An established but promising group of cancer drugs was a red-hot market in 2023, and more companies could look to the treatments to fuel growth in the year ahead. … Read more
Image of the mountains of clothes that accumulate in the Atacama Desert, in Chile. Credit: Gemma Morell. A total of 90% of the municipal textile waste generated in Catalonia ends up in landfills or incinerators, according to a study by ICTA-UAB, which shows that only 10% of textile waste is collected separately. In the case … Read more
A disaster management agency official washes a car covered in volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Marapi in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. Dozens of people living on the slopes of Mount Marapi have been evacuated from their homes after Indonesian authorities raised the alert level of of the nearly 2,900-meter … Read more
Sean de Guzman, right, snow survey manager at the California Department of Water Resources, conducts the first snow survey of the season with his team at Phillips Station, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. Once regularly snowbound river basins across the globe are increasingly seeing their snowpack shrink and climate change is to blame, a … Read more
Artist’s visualization of a supermassive black hole in the early universe. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) The Dark Energy Survey took an entire decade to produce a value for the cosmological constant—and it’s smaller than you might think! There were other stories as well, including one about primeval black holes, and because I … Read more
Florida Governor and 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis (C) is guided to his vehicle by staff as he departs a campaign stop in Ankeny, Iowa, on January 12, 2024. Plunging temperatures, whipping wind and buckets of snow derailed the final stretch of caucus campaigning in the US state of Iowa Friday as Republican presidential … Read more
Christmas trees are thrown into the waters of Hammarby Sjostad to provide habitat for fish. On a freezing January morning, dozens of discarded Christmas trees collected after the holidays are tossed into Stockholm’s glacial waters, recycled to provide a welcoming habitat for marine life. The initiative, started by national sport fishing association Sportfiskarna in 2016 … Read more
WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA helps explain why northern Europeans have a higher risk of multiple sclerosis than other ancestries: It’s a genetic legacy of horseback-riding cattle herders who swept into the region about 5,000 years ago. The findings come from a huge project to compare modern DNA with that culled from ancient humans’ teeth and … Read more
Though Astrobotic, the company that built the Peregrine robot, has said a controlled touchdown on the Moon is no longer possible — it hasn’t ruled out a so-called “hard landing” or crash, a prospect that has space watchers gripped. Is it the little spaceship that could? A private US lunar lander that’s been hemorrhaging fuel … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Innovation may be what drives progress in the arts, business, sciences and technology, but the novel ideas that drive innovation often face headwinds that hinder or even prevent their adoption. Why did some good ideas, such as hand sanitizing in 19th-century hospitals or racial integration in the 20th century, take years … Read more
