Photo: Honda After discontinuing the Civic-based Insight following the 2023 model year, Honda has been left with just two hybrid models on sale, the Accord and the CR-V. Despite the lack of model variety, it turns out those two remaining hybrids are a huge boon for Honda, as they both made up 25 percent of … Read more
Credit: iScience (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108533 Africa is on fire. It has been for thousands of years. The continent contains more than 50% of the total area on Earth that is burning, on average, and there is no sign of it stopping; indeed, the migrating, hemisphere-hopping African wildfire season is steadily increasing. The fire is essentially … Read more
Developmental stage-specific downregulation of chlorophyll using ethanol inducible promoter. (a) Biosynthesis pathway of chlorophyll and the model structure of Mg-chelatase with three subunits (red rectangle). (b) Design of ethanol inducible CHLI sRNA construct. (c) Location of T-DNA (red triangle) in two tobacco mutants (mt1 and mt2). (d) Changes in leaf color phenotype after 100 mL 1% … Read more
A man walks past the Samsung logo displayed on a glass door at the company’s Seocho building in Seoul on April 7, 2023. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images Samsung recently announced it will host a news conference in San Jose, California, on Jan. 17 where it will unveil its newest Galaxy phones. Samsung … Read more
The percentage of words preserved in story retelling task by grammatical category. The text label from top to bottom respectively represents the percentages of word preservation, number of word types and number of word tokens in the corresponding grammatical categories. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2220898120 New research from the … Read more
Bitcoin tumbled on Wednesday, giving back all of its gains from the rally earlier this week. The price of bitcoin was last lower by 6% at $42,159.37, according to Coin Metrics. On Tuesday it climbed as high as $45,913.30, its highest level since April 2022. The drop followed Nasdaq’s worst day since October, as traders … Read more
Orbit computed for VVV CL002 (black line), overlaid on the probability densities of orbits projected on the galactic plane (left) and height above the plane z versus galactocentric radius (right). Lighter colors indicate more probable regions of space, that are more frequently sampled by the simulated orbits. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.16028 Using the Magellan … Read more
The Earth’s temperature has briefly risen above a crucial threshold that scientists have been warning for decades could have catastrophic and irreversible impacts on the planet and its ecosystems. For the first time, the global average temperature on Friday last week was more than 2 degrees Celsius hotter than levels before industrialisation. That’s according to … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of Maryland and National Institutes of Health have identified the microbial enzyme responsible for giving urine its yellow hue, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Microbiology. The discovery of this enzyme, called bilirubin reductase, paves the way for further research into the gut … Read more
A landslip of old mining debris hit Tylorstown in south Wales in 2020. It was nearly four years ago but the memory of the landslip that sent 60,000 tons of old mining debris sliding down a Welsh hillside still haunts former miner Jeff Coombes. First the river he was walking along with his dog in … Read more
