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Centuries-old cotton tree, a national symbol for decades, felled by storm in Sierra Leone

Torrential rains in Sierra Leone's capital felled the centuries-old Cotton Tree, a national treasure whose loss has left "a gap" in people's hearts, the country's President Julius Maada Bio said Thursday......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgMay 25th, 2023

Battling air pollution may contribute to climate change by impacting soil carbon storage

Decades-old policies aimed at improving air quality may also be accelerating global climate change, warns a recent study published in the journal Ecology......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated News15 hr. 56 min. ago

3D printing method crafts stronger, more ductile alloy for extreme environments

A team of researchers from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Tianmushan Laboratory, and the National University of Singapore has pioneered a new method for crafting an ultra-strong, ductile alloy using 3D printing technology......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated News22 hr. 23 min. ago

How do brains coordinate activity? From fruit flies to monkeys, scientists discover a universal principle

The brain is a marvel of efficiency, honed by thousands of years of evolution so it can adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. Yet, despite decades of research, the mystery of how the brain achieves this has remained elusive......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated News22 hr. 23 min. ago

Hurricane Rafael triggers nationwide blackout in Cuba

Hurricane Rafael knocked out power to all of Cuba on Wednesday as it slammed through the cash-strapped island, which was still reeling from a recent blackout and a previous deadly storm......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 7th, 2024

Experiment reveals how Earth"s magnetic field influences flow in planet"s core

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, in France, has demonstrated how Earth's magnetic field may be influencing internal flow, using what they descri.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

Novel AI framework incorporates experimental data and text-based narratives to accelerate search for new proteins

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and the world's fastest supercomputers, a research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has developed an innovative computing framework to speed up the desi.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

Scientists calculate predictions for meson measurements

Nuclear physics theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated that complex calculations run on supercomputers can accurately predict the distribution of electric charges in mesons, particles made.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

Climate change is contributing to drought in the American West even without rainfall deficits, scientists find

Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020–2022. A study by UCLA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate scientists ha.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

2024 GMC Sierra EV review: a good electric truck that could be better

The all-electric version of GMC's mainstay full-size pickup puts on a charm offensive for diehard truck buyers......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

States’ Abortion Rights Wins May Be Short-Lived Under a Second Trump Term

More than two years after a historic Supreme Court decision ended the national right to an abortion, some states are fighting back—but the future of abortion rights remains in doubt......»»

Category: gadgetSource:  wiredRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

Public pressure found to influence whether companies reduce their environmental impact

The effectiveness of national voluntary programs asking companies to pledge to lower their pollution and greenhouse gas emissions depends on pressure from the public, according to a new study led by a Penn State researcher......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

Scientists use high-energy heavy ion collisions as a new tool to reveal subtleties of nuclear structure

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE's Brookhaven National La.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

How imposter syndrome and a lack of self-confidence can hold small businesses back

It might come as a surprise that most of the UK's income and employment is provided not by the big national or multinational companies we all recognize but by what are known as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

NRO chief: “You can’t hide” from our new swarm of SpaceX-built spy satellites

"A satellite is always coming over an area within a given reasonable amount of time." The director of the National Reconnaissance Office has a message for US adversaries around th.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

Endurance tells story of two expeditions, centuries apart

New NatGeo documentary was directed by the same duo who brought us the Oscar-winning Free Solo. The story of Arctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's failed 1914 expedition to be the f.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

RTO mandate was attempt at thwarting Grindr workers unionizing: US labor board

80 out of 120 workers trying to unionize reportedly quit due to RTO mandate. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is accusing Grindr of using a return-to-office (RTO) mandat.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

Decades after global regulations, the Arctic Ocean"s legacy persistent organic pollutants haven"t dropped

The presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in all the world's oceans but one has been in steady decline since 2001, when 152 countries agreed on a comprehensive global ban. The exception has been the Arctic Ocean, which has seen a sharp ris.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

How many additional exoplanets are in known systems?

One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 planets, and we have evidence for thousands more. Most of these planets were discovered using the transit method. though there.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

New modeling of complex biological systems could offer insights into genomic data and other huge datasets

Over the past two decades, new technologies have helped scientists generate a vast amount of biological data. Large-scale experiments in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and cytometry can produce enormous quantities of data from a given cellula.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

New policy aims to introduce bilingual education in South Africa

Language has always been used as a political football in South Africa. This can be traced back to the competing English and Dutch colonizers, from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, each group trying to assert linguistic as well as economic and so.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024