Joe Biden urged leaders of major emitting economies to step up efforts to roll out zero-emission vehicles, cut methane emissions and deploy carbon capture technologies The US will provide $1…
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EasyJet CEO ‘confident’ after last summer’s travel chaos
EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren expects a ‘better’ summer for travellers after last year’s chaos. The aviation sector has endured chaos at airports after the end of Covid restrictions, high inflation…
Surprise! Rapid heritable adaptation can occur without initial standing genetic variation – Functional Ecologists
In this new post, Kimberley Lemmen—a post-doc working at the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland—discusses her paper: Experimental evidence of rapid heritable adaptation in the absence of initial standing genetic…
SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
SpaceX’s Starship launches from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, April 20, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off Thursday on it first…
Hopelessness about the future is a key reason some Black young adults consider suicide, new study finds
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Feeling hopeless about the future is one of the primary reasons Black young adults consider suicide.…
Will Walmart Using Gen AI Break Open Pandora’s Retail Box?
Retail giant Walmart is going all in on developing its own generative artificial intelligence GPT-4 platform to drive sales and boost customer experience (CX). This announcement puts Walmart on stage…
Gut bacteria could be behind weaker immune responses to COVID-19 vaccine
High activity of fucose digestion by bacteria in the gut is associated with higher expression of two AP-1 transcription factors, FOS and ATF3 in blood immune cells, and with a…
Surface steers signals for next-gen networks
Computer science Ph.D. student Kun Woo Cho is the lead author of a study on mmWall, a new device that steers higher-frequency 5G signals, or mmWave signals, to get around…
Farm waste turned into air-cleaning substance
Newswise — Air pollution and its high concentration in cities is one of the problems facing society today, due to its harmful effects on the environment, but also on human…
