US, China, UK left off UN Climate Action Summit guestlist

Only five of the G20 major economies made the cut for Antonio Guterres’ Climate Action Summit in New York, despite pressure from big powers UN chief Antonio Guterres left big…

Sentinel-1 Reveals Shifts From Morocco Earthquake

Following the devastating earthquake that struck Morocco on 8 September, satellite data have been made available through the International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’ to help emergency response teams on…

Tire maker honored for tackling electric car pollution

An electric car charges at a charging point reserved for Tesla cars. Electric cars are widely hailed as the future of transport, but even though they eliminate the issue of…

Cognitive behavioral therapy found to ease how fibromyalgia pain is experienced by the brain

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Patients living with fibromyalgia (FM)—a disease that predominantly affects women and is characterized by chronic pain, fatigue and brain fog—often find limited treatment options and a…

Tall buildings could be built quicker if damping models were correct, study finds

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Multi-story buildings are assembled over cautiously to withstand wind strengths, researchers have found. This is because there are several difficulties in estimating damping—the method of removing…

Certain community health care worker programs often exploit volunteers, researchers report

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain More than half of volunteer community health care workers in 19 countries experience labor exploitation, including sub-minimum-wage pay and excess work hours, Mount Sinai researchers report…

For the first time, researchers decoded the RNA of an extinct animal

For the first time, researchers have successfully extracted and decoded RNA from an extinct animal. The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was a wolflike marsupial that went extinct…

Is Early Convalescent Plasma Treatment A Barrier to Long COVID?

Summary: Researchers found that early treatment with plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients reduces the risk of developing post-COVID conditions or “long COVID.” The study revealed that patients who received the…

Early medieval carved stone of a warrior figure found in Glasgow |

Archaeologists excavating the grounds of Govan Old Church in Glasgow, England, have discovered an early medieval carved stone figure dubbed the “Govan Warrior”. Govan Old Church is the home of…

NASA’s VERITAS science team studies volcanic Iceland

Members of the VERITAS science team descend a slope to new rock formed from a recent flow of lava during their Iceland field campaign in early August. The team used…