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Bradley and Casey Luskin in Evolution News: In recent years, MIT physicist Jeremy England (pictured above) has gained media attention for proposing a thermodynamic energy-dissipation model of the origin of life.
by Quillette at YouTube: A narrated version of Frank Celia’s essay, published in Quillette on 17 June 2024
by Jack Marley, Environment commissioning editor at The Conversation: Fossil fuels have kept Earth 1.5°C hotter than its pre-industrial average temperature for more than a year now. And yet, where I
Lois Parshley at The Lever: In early May, Google announced it would be adding artificial intelligence to its search engine. When the new feature rolled out, AI Overviews began offering summaries to
By Timothy Grieve-Carlson at OUP: At the beginning of another summer that will likely prove to be the hottest in the planet’s recorded history, it is easy to feel like
Continue readingWhat Can Seventeenth-century Sources Teach us About Living With Climate Change?
Irshad Salim, Karachi: One day I asked Professor Kahn why do we keep hearing all the time about freedom of expression, right to dissent, etc. “Wisdom of crowds is a
From Anthropocene: Lithium is key to our electric, low-carbon future. The best known rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage rely on the silvery metal. But the supply
Continue readingSieving Lithium Out of Salty Waters Get a Boost From a Nature-inspired Membrane
by Mary Hrovat at 3 Quarks Daily: In the shapeless but often suggestive scatter of stars across a dark night sky, humans have picked out patterns and woven countless tales
by Tomas Pueyo at Uncharted Territories: Chile is so long, it’s curved. How long is it?Why not longer?Why is no other country as thin?How does that make Chileans incomprehensible? Chile
Stephen Case at Aeon: Today’s modern wind turbines seem to repel poetic or artistic engagement. It is difficult to imagine a landscape painter portraying their spare lines and uniform rows
Continue readingCould We Learn to Love Wind Turbines as We Did the Windmills?
Meghan Willcoxon at Quanta: Each summer, like clockwork, millions of beech trees throughout Europe sync up, tuning their reproductive physiology to one another. Within a matter of days, the trees
Continue readingAcross a Continent, Trees Sync Their Fruiting to the Sun
Eric Schmid at Undark: For 20 years, Pablo Sobron sought a better way to learn exactly what was in the soil, rock, or any other substance on Mars. Instead of
Continue readingThe Promise of Precision Agriculture Is Slowly Coming to Fruition