Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ask themselves and each other […]
Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce more of what we want, and survive drought, pests, and infection. For millennia, we […]
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a spray-on polymer coating that could help plants resist harmful bacterial infections and survive drought. The advance, published in ACS Materials Letters, could help strengthen […]
Perovskite solar modules provide numerous benefits. They are lightweight, highly efficient, easily scalable, and at the same time inexpensive and facile to produce. However, their commercial use still faces challenges. During production, toxic solvents are […]
New findings about ocean processes in the Antarctic show melting ice shelves and changes to sea ice could have catastrophic implications for the global climate.This post was originally published on this site.
“We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice.” That’s the message from more than 50 leading scientists who study Earth’s frozen regions, published in the latest annual State of the Cryosphere report.This post was […]
Wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope were more active this past century than at any time in the past 3,000 years, according to a study published in the journal Biogeosciences.This post was originally published on this […]
Until recently, Australia’s efforts to tackle “forever chemical” pollution focused on highly polluted firefighting and defense sites.This post was originally published on this site.
The internet is awash with adverts for various portable heaters, with claims that they will heat your house for pennies. Some are marketed as the “Tesla of the heating industry” (despite being nothing to do […]
Robots from around the world converged on Silicon Valley to provide a glimpse of a potential future.This post was originally published on this site.
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