How hacking your metabolism can help you burn fat and prevent disease
A portable device called Lumen promises to enable your body to burn fats more efficiently, part of a new trend for “metabolism hacking” – which may even help you run…
Nord Stream pipes leaked ‘enormous’ amount of methane into atmosphere
Satellite measurement should reveal just how much potent greenhouse gas was released by the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, but for now the estimates put it in the order of hundreds…
Fewer boys born in England and Wales in early stage of the pandemic
The covid-19 pandemic has been linked to a decline in the proportion of male babies being born, in line with previous findings that fewer boys are born after population-wide stressful…
What’s causing a mass die-off of crabs on the UK coast?
By Jason Arunn Murugesu Hundreds of dead crabs on the beach at Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, in 2021 Paul Grainger A mysterious die-off of crustaceans on the north-east coast of England…
SCOTUS Hears a Case with Broad Implications for the Clean Water Act
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The U.S. Supreme Court opens its new session on Oct. 3, 2022, with…
Ian Sinks Florida ‘Dome Home’ Built to Survive Hurricanes
It was an architectural icon, a forebear to hurricane readiness and a cautionary tale about building too close to the shore. The Cape Romano dome home, completed in 1982 on…
Nobel Winner Svante Pääbo Discovered the Neandertal in Our Genes
Scientists have always been fascinated by the question of human origins: When and where did modern humans—Homo sapiens—first appear? What distinguishes us from other members of the genus Homo and…
How Stopping Alaskan Wildfires Can Slow Climate Change
In the carbon-rich boreal forests that extend across the globe just below the Arctic Circle, a vicious climate-wildfire cycle is playing out, one that poses both an accelerating climate threat…
AI can tell which buildings are energy efficient from the outside
AI can use images from Google Street View and satellites to estimate building energy efficiency across entire cities. That could guide investments in reducing energy waste and fighting climate change…
Experiments hint at how molecules essential to all life first arose
A series of chemistry experiments suggest that a molecule that provides energy for all living cells, called ATP, could have been forged in geothermal vents in the ocean or created…