Here’s How Wasps Have Inspired an Innovative New Tool for Keyhole Surgery
Dutch scientists have designed a new device to be used in keyhole surgeryâand it’s inspired by the way parasitoid wasps lay their eggs. At the moment, the tools used in such surgery can end up clogging because they use suction. This new tool doesn’t have that problem because it uses friction. According to the BBC, […]
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Transits of Jupiterâs moons ahead: A triple!
Observers using a good pair of binoculars or a small telescope can see events called transits on Jupiter, when a moon or its shadow passes in front of the giant planet.
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Caroline Herschel Medal to honor women astronomers
Learn about the Caroline Herschel Medal, meant to honor the contributions of women astronomers. And meet the women who helped shape astronomy.
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Capturing Climate Change – IEEE Spectrum
This is part of IEEE Spectrum’s special report: Critical Challenges 2002: Technology Takes On The government of Tuvalu, a Pacific Island nation, made a plea last summer for countries to take in Tuvalu evacuees, fearing a rising sea level will…
Future sea level rise: When, where, how much?
Scientists have grown more confident about sea level rise projections for the next few decades, but competing factors make it hard to see far into the future.
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The Only Way to Stop Global Warming – Modern Diplomacy
One way exists to stop global warming, but the mutual feedback cycles that are now accelerating global warming might already have achieved enough speed of increasing temperature so as to prevent even that one way from working, and therefore the…
Heat Wave and Wildfire Updates: Climate Change News – The New York Times
Extreme Weather and Climate Updates July 27, 2021Updated July 27, 2021, 4:49 p.m. ET July 27, 2021, 4:49 p.m. ET The Dixie Fire burned near Quincy, Calif., on Monday.Credit…Jungho Kim for The New York Times Residents of Montana and Wyoming…
The West is burning. Climate change is making it worse. – Vox.com
California’s largest active fire continues to burn Sunday after tearing through a small community overnight. The Dixie Fire, which started earlier this month and has now burned more than 190,000 acres, forced a new wave of evacuations in Northern California…
Three degrees of global warming is quite plausible and truly disastrous – The Economist
Jul 24th 2021 BY THE STANDARDS of the 21st century as a whole, 2021 will almost certainly go down as a comparatively cool year. By the standards of the rest of human history its weather looks disconcertingly like hell. Listen…
Opinion | Where Is Biden’s Climate Change ‘Revolution’? – The New York Times
Why the clock is ticking As The Times’s Coral Davenport explained in April, the Biden administration wants to pass a clean energy standard by the next global climate talks, which are scheduled to take place in Scotland in November. “Absent…
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