Tiny swimming robots seeking life in alien seas
Tiny swimming robots sound like cool science fiction. But a JPL robotics engineer is developing them, for future missions to ocean worlds.
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Stanford Medicine leaders sign Biden administration pledge to address climate change – Stanford Medical Center Report
A roundtable at the White House on reducing the health care industry’s climate-warming emissions includes leaders from Stanford Medicine. June 30, 2022 Leaders at Stanford Medicine have pledged to reduce climate-warming emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by…
Supreme Court curbs EPA’s ability to fight climate change – CNN
CNN — The Supreme Court curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to broadly regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants, a major defeat for the Biden administration’s attempts to slash emissions at a moment when scientists are sounding alarms about…
How Businesses Can Hold Their Banks Accountable on Climate Change – HBR.org Daily
Companies are under scrutiny for how major banks that they partner with are financing carbon-intensive projects. How can companies wishing to be “green” respond? One solution is to switch to a low-carbon bank if possible. But a better hope is…
Couples can sway each other’s views on climate change – Futurity: Research News
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. There’s potential for couples to influence each other through conversations on climate change, research finds. “We wanted to see if there’s potential for couples…
Juneâs deep sky: Nebulae, a nova and more
Members of the EarthSky community shared these amazing photos of June’s deep sky. Enjoy these images of a nova, some nebulae, a cluster and more!
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He Planted a Giant Sequoia in the UK to Offset His Carbon Footprint for Life – And 700 More to Make a Forest
Rather than sending money off to some questionable and unconfirmable carbon-capture forest, Henry Emson figured he would plant his own trees so he could look into the face of society and say “my carbon footprint is accounted for.” As it turns out, Emson realized that it was better to go big, and so planted a […]
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Prostate Cancer Breakthrough Could Stop the Tumor Spreading After It Becomes Resistant to Current Therapy
A prostate cancer breakthrough could stop the tumor spreading after it becomes resistant to current therapy, scientists say. Anti-hormonal treatment blocks the signal sent out by testosterone that stimulates tumor growth. But eventually the cancer cells become resistant and the growth spreads through the body becoming fatal. An international research team led by Dutch scientists […]
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Opinion: Davos Was a Case Study in How Not to Talk About Climate Change – Undark Magazine
Science has a resistance to ill-founded assertions embedded deep in its bones. Carl Sagan called this “baloney detection.” But in the face of climate change, arguably our largest science-related crisis, these baloney detection capabilities haven’t kept our leaders honest. Consider…
Mystery rocket impacts moon
A mystery rocket has hit the lunar surface. Late in 2021, astronomers spotted what turned out to be a spent…
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