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A sign advertised the upcoming United Nations climate summit at the Istanbul airport in Turkey, which will host the meeting starting on Monday.
Retraction Watch - 1 day 8 hours agoThe top publishing executive at the American Diabetes Association has resigned over how the organization has handled an editorial boycott at one of its journals following a protest at its annual meeting earlier this year. Christian Kohler, vice president for professional publications, submitted his resignation on Nov. 6, "after considerable reflection and with profound disappointment … Continue reading Diabetes association VP resigns over response to editorial boycott following protest...
The notion that frozen visitors from space jump-started life on Earth just took a major hit. A new modeling study led by University of Cambridge researchers finds that when comets slam into our planet, the entry is so intense that key organic compounds are overwhelmingly destroyed making the comet-delivery theory...
GeekSpin - 1 day 19 hours agoNASA’s Artemis II launch earlier this year created huge temporary holes (depletions in electron density in the ionospheric plasma) in a layer of Earth’s upper atmosphere that GPS signals pass through, and researchers say the effect could cause errors in GPS positioning. The findings were detailed in a preprint study that was released on the […] Read the original article here: NASA rocket may have punched a 3,100-mile hole in the sky...
Summer heat is a major problem for silicon solar panels. They typically lose 0.5 percent of their efficiency for every degree their temperature rises above 25 C. That's a problem in hot places like Baghdad, where air temperatures can top 50 C and prolonged sunlight can push panel surfaces toward 80 C. In those kinds of extreme conditions, solar panel efficiency has been shown to drop by as much as 25 percent . But new research out of Iraq could provide a cooling solution that boosts solar panel...
Genes and archaeology are revealing how Bantu speakers spread across much of Africa.
Retraction Watch - 1 day 22 hours agoIf your week flew by we know ours did catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 68,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: Francesca Gino's claims against Harvard dismissed; a brief history of scientific sleuths; China's controversial trials slow...
Storm events spread microplastics across the environment, even to places that are nearly unreachable. A UC Riverside scientist skied into wilderness far off the beaten path, and found the polluting particles everywhere she looked.
Owning a home is billed as a way to build wealth, but amid climate-related disasters, for many, it's beginning to feel like a trap.
PBS Newshour - 2 days 9 hours agoThe International Space Station is 250 miles above Earth and travels at roughly 175,000 mph as it orbits our planet. Since 2000, scientists have conducted experiments on everything from cancer to botany to fundamental questions about our universe. Horizons moderator William Brangham explores life aboard the ISS with two astronauts who worked there, Karen Nyberg and Don Pettit. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
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