[ad_1] Collaboration plays a key role in science, and conferences have long been a part of helping build relationships between researchers. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, conferences were forced to go virtual, with some unintended benefits — without the need to travel, more people could attend conferences that would otherwise be inaccessible due…
[ad_1] The report is expected to be the definitive guide to slashing emissions and halting global warming. Negotiations to finalise a key UN report on how to stave off climate catastrophe wrapped up on Sunday more than two days late following a tussle over how to describe financial needs, participants told AFP. Two-weeks of virtual…
[ad_1] This colorized image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory space telescope shows a powerful solar flare blasting from the sun on March 31, 2022. (Image credit: NASA) NASA’s orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory captured yet another solar flare blasting from the same overactive sunspot that triggered radio blackouts and stunning aurora displays on Earth earlier…
[ad_1] By sending light through urine it’s possible to generate a hologram that can reveal the presence of bacteria or other signs of disease Technology 1 April 2022 By Alex Wilkins Cells from a urine infection, viewed through a scanning electron microscope STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A system that analyses urine using holograms could lead…
[ad_1] Artist’s concept of a young planetary systemNASA / JPL-Caltech Reconstructing the events that led to the present configuration of planets in the solar system is a formidable task. The orderly perennial motions emerged from the hectic conditions within the newborn protoplanetary disk, marked by violent collisions and radial migrations of forming protoplanets. Planet by…
[ad_1] Russia has once again threatened to end its cooperation with the West on the International Space Station (ISS) program. Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos, decried the sanctions imposed by the United States, Japan, Canada and the European Union — the other ISS partners — on his nation because of…
[ad_1] This story was originally published in our May/June 2022 issue as “Tracing Back Brains.” Click here to subscribe to read more stories like this one. The secrets behind the evolution of the human mind might lie within the thousands of tiny “brains” called organoids that neuroscientist Alysson Muotri has grown in his laboratory at the University…
[ad_1] By Adam Vaughan One of Atlantis Energy’s turbines being lowered into the water in Scotland Atlantis Energy Hello, and welcome to this week’s Fix the Planet, the weekly climate change newsletter that reminds you there are reasons for hope in science and technology around the world. To receive this free, monthly newsletter in your…
[ad_1] Stingrays and zebra mbuna fish shown fewer than five shapes can add or subtract “one” from the total to gain a reward Life 31 March 2022 By Carissa Wong Two zebra mbuna fish (Pseudotropheus zebra). Tests suggest the fish can perform basic arithmetic blickwinkel/F. Hecker/Alamy Stingrays and zebra mbuna fish can perform simple addition…
[ad_1] Shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has injured two people and caused a fire, but it is unlikely to release radiation unless the situation gets significantly worse Physics 4 March 2022 By Matthew Sparkes A fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant following a Russian attack on 4 March Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant/Anadolu…