Enlarge / Eliminating extreme poverty won’t necessarily boost emissions as much as people fear. (credit: Soltan Frédéric ) The United Nations’ first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) aims to eradicate poverty around the world. If implemented, however , it might see people consume more—drive more often, buy more products—and, thus, produce more carbon emissions, fueling climate […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In a plastic-domed case at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, researchers gave a pair of lungs a new identity. When the lungs first arrived in the lab, they were from someone with type A blood, meaning that there were certain tiny markers, called antigens, attached to the lung tissue and […]
Enlarge (credit: TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY ) Laurence King Publishing , based in London, is “one of the world’s leading publishers of books and gifts on the creative arts. ” They have a series called “The Short Story of X”; so far it includes the Short Story of Art , of Modern Art , associated […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty | Xinhua News Agency) A sub-lineage of the omicron coronavirus variant, dubbed BA.2, continues to increase steadily around the globe as scientists and health officials are still working to understand the risk it poses to public health. So far, the overall data has been a mix. Some recent laboratory and animal data […]
Enlarge / The Largo di Torre Argentina in Rome contains the Curia of Pompey. This place is falling apart. New study concludes it was built in 3 phases. (credit: Adam Carr / Wikipedia) The Curia of Pompey is famous for being the site where Julius Caesar was stabbed to death on the ides of March […]
Enlarge / Vials of undiluted Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (credit: Getty | BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI ) Vaccine makers are pushing back when omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccines could be ready for use. The shots were initially expected in March. Delays in the vaccines’ development come as cases of omicron have been dropping rapidly, and several animal studies have suggested […]
Enlarge / Signage on a window of a coffee shop informs customer of their masking policy in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. The state’s indoor mask requirement, which requires everyone to wear face coverings indoors regardless of vaccination status, expired on Wednesday. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) With national cases of COVID-19 […]
Enlarge / Plasma inside the tokamak at the EPFL. (credit: EPFL) As the world waits for construction of the largest fusion reactor yet, called ITER, smaller reactors with similar designs are still running. These reactors, called tokamaks, help us test both hardware and software. The hardware testing helps us refine things like the materials used […]
Enlarge / European astronaut Matthias Maurer, in the white t-shirt, joins his Crew-3 mates in hugging a Falcon 9 rocket at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. (credit: SpaceX) European astronauts have been flying into space since 1978, when a German named Sigmund Jähn climbed aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and traveled to the Salyut 6 space station […]
Enlarge / Boston Medical Center Child Life Specialist Karlie Bittrich sees to a baby while in a pediatrics tent set up outside of Boston Medical Center in Boston on April 29, 2020. (credit: Getty | Boston Globe) Despite being widely seen as mild, the omicron coronavirus variant has been brutal on children and adolescents—particularly babies […]