Written by Katia Hetter, Forrest Brown and Autumn Spanne
Written by Université de Genève
Written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule that can be controlled using Bluetooth wireless technology.
Written by Pierre Gosselin
People familiar with the chaos that is weather will agree that seasonal forecasts based merely on computer simulations are highly speculative and involve much guesswork. The quality of their output leaves little to be desired.
Written by Bradford Betz
Climate researchers are sounding the alarm on a polar vortex that’s predicted to sweep through the U.S.’ east coast later this month and inflict one of the harshest winters in years, The Washington Post reported.
Written by Geraint Hughes
I have sent many letters to MP’s, Councillors and other people and I have noticed a particular theme, from their responses, which has prompted me to write this article.
Written by Dr Benny Peiser
You may recall the BBC’s news story a couple of months ago, claiming that African penguin populations were declining because of climate change.
The report from South Africa, which then followed, made no mention of climate change at all but instead laid the blame fairly and squarely on overfishing.
Written by Tony Heller
This is the second part of my series exposing fraud in the National Climate Assessment. In the first part, I discussed graph B (US Heat Waves) on their summary page 38. In this part, I am discussing graph F (Arctic Sea Ice Extent.)
Written by Stephen Wells
The general public don’t like mathematics. Maths is hard. Maths is boring. Put an equation in a book and you will half its sales for each one you are foolish enough to insert into the pages of it. Nobody want to read a book full of equations.
Written by University of Leeds
Astronomers have captured one of the most detailed views of a young star taken to date, and revealed an unexpected companion in orbit around it.
While observing the young star, astronomers led by Dr John Ilee from the University of Leeds discovered it was not in fact one star, but two.
Written by Dr Susan J Crockford
Over the weekend in Canada, the CBC ran a polar bear news feature that is now available online (“Polar bears in peril: the bleak future of Churchill bears,” The National, CBC, 3 December 2018).
Written by Chalmers University of Technology
(h/t Raining Sky) Organically farmed food has a bigger climate impact than conventionally farmed food, due to the greater areas of land required. This is the finding of a new international study involving Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, published in the journal Nature.
Written by Nafeez Ahmed
Rare earth metals are essential to solar panels and wind turbines—as well as electric cars and consumer electronics. We don’t recycle them, and there’s not enough to meet growing demand.
Written by Tracey Watson
No longer content to tinker with the genetic design of crops and humans, scientists – at the behest of the U.S. Military – are now turning their attention to the world’s oceans.
Written by Jack Guy
Humans have unusually globular (or round) skulls and brains compared to our ancient ancestors — including our closest extinct cousins the Neanderthals — and a new study provides a possible explanation as to why.
Written by Ashley Strickland
The Geminid meteor shower peaks this week, so hope for clear skies that will let you see a beautiful show of green fireballs on Thursday and Friday. This will be the last — and strongest — meteor shower of the year, according to NASA.