News Briefs from around the World: October 2022
Credit: NASAAdvertisement PERU Analysis of 700,000 years of sediment from an Andean lake shows that tropical mountain glaciers in the...
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A black hole ate a star and belched out the remains two years later
A distant black hole shredded a star in 2018, and released a plume of plasma travelling around 50 per cent...
Why India’s Capital Is Teeming With Mosquitoes
Delhi's surge of Culex mosquitoes comes at a time when public health officials are declaring notable victories against other kinds...
Uncertainty Can Speed Up Climate Action
The Uncertainty Paradox The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help...
Grey wolves are rebounding but it’s making it hard for them to survive
After grey wolf numbers grew in the US, they were taken off the Endangered Species List, which has made them...
Big Pharma Says Drug Prices Reflect R&D Cost. Researchers Call BS
At the end of September, a spot of good news: Relyvrio, a new drug for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—or ALS,...
Hurricane Ian Destroyed Retirees’ Life Savings
Hurricane Ian may have destroyed the financial security of thousands of Florida retirees whose life savings were invested in houses...
What’s next if SpaceX won’t fund Starlink in Ukraine?
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the company can no longer pay for the Starlink satellites providing internet for Ukraine’s government...
A Reboot of the Maxwell’s Demon Thought Experiment—in Real Life
In addition, the second law of thermodynamics signifies the statistical nature of the universe. Its building blocks are not stars,...
Neurons in a Dish Learn to Play Pong
Hundreds of thousands of human neurons growing in a dish coated with electrodes have been taught to play a version...
Plastic recycling: Bacteria and catalysts turn waste into useful chemicals
Double-whammy approach uses chemical catalysts to break down mixed plastic waste so bacteria can convert what’s left into desirable compounds...
Recycled Battery Materials Can Work as Well as New Ones
The cathode is a marvel of molecular choreography. How much power a battery holds, and how long it lasts, depends...
How Iran Is Using the Protests to Block More Open Internet Access
For nearly a month Iranians have been fiercely and relentlessly protesting against their government. Sparked by the death of a...
Living Planet Index: Wildlife populations are declining on a ‘devastating’ scale, says WWF
According to the WWF's 2022 Living Planet Index, mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have declined by an average of...
Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Works in Rats
The tiny blobs of lab-grown human brain tissue were just specks, each measuring a few millimeters in diameter. Researchers at...
DART’s Smashing Success Shows Humanity Can Divert Asteroids
Humans have for the first time proven that they can change the path of a massive rock hurtling through space....
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