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By Devika Rao at The Week: The sun is currently at solar maximum. This means that the celestial body is at its peak activity, releasing higher levels of radiation and
Continue readingGetting to the Red Planet Requires Planning and a Whole Lot of Knowledge
at The Conversation‘s Curious Kids series: Many, many years ago dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Six-year-old Aga knows that a meteorite wiped them out… but could another meteorite bring them back?
Continue readingIf an Asteroid Hit Earth and All the Humans Died, Would the Dinosaurs Come Back?
By Edd Gent at Singularity Hub: The renewable energy transition will require a huge amount of materials, and there are fears we may soon face shortages of some critical metals.
Continue readingPhytomining: Using Plants to Mine Valuable Metals From the Soil With Their Roots
By Devika Rao in The Week: The world’s fish supply is getting smaller, physically. A study published in the journal Science said that body size trends “varied across communities,” but
Jo Adetunji at The Conversation: Climate change is making the symptoms of certain brain conditions worse, our new review has found. Conditions that can worsen as temperature and humidity rise
Continue readingClimate Change is Linked to Worsening Brain Diseases – New Study
Robert Lea at Space.com: NASA’s interstellar explorer Voyager 1 is finally communicating with ground control in an understandable way again. On Saturday (April 20), Voyager 1 updated ground control about
Continue readingNASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Finally Phones Home After 5 Months of No Contact
Elliott Smith at MS LatAm: As the data and results from Guacamaya and PrevisIA continue to grow and be refined, the goal is for other countries to replicate these projects
Continue readingAI May Hold a Key to the Preservation of the Amazon Rainforest
By Jason Dorrier at Singularity Hub: In tandem with Google Cloud, the Asteroid Institute recently announced they’ve spotted 27,500 new asteroids—more than all discoveries worldwide last year—without requiring a single
Continue readingAstronomers Discover 27,500 New Asteroids Lurking in Archival Images
Lessons from anthropology can help prevent them. Ron Barrett in The Conversation: The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the
Continue readingFuture Pandemics Will Have the Same Human Causes as Ancient Outbreaks
Indonesia is the eighth-largest contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Therefore, its role in global decarbonization is increasingly critical. With historical trends indicating a potential doubling of its emissions
Continue readingTen Bold Moves to Indonesia Becoming a Global Beacon for Decarbonization
Rather than using concrete to channel away rainwater, it is best to work with nature to absorb, clean and use the water. Jack Marley at The Imagine Newsletter of The Conversation:
Continue readingCities and Homes Weren’t Built For This Climate
Tasneem Zehra Husain in New Humanist: If science has a native tongue, it is mathematics. Equations capture, precisely, the relationships among the elements of a system; they allow us to pose