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Scientists have discovered a new route to produce complex antibiotics exploiting gene editing to re-program pathways to future medicines urgently required to combat antimicrobial resistance, treat neglected diseases and prevent future pandemics. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3G24grf

Using computer simulations, chemists have discovered how nuclear bodies called nucleoli interact with chromosomes in the nucleus, and how those interactions help the nucleoli exist as stable droplets within the nucleus. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3d5RE5T

Bacteria from the digestive system seem to have the potential to cause damage to pancreatic cells, increasing the risk of malignant tumors. Now for the first time, live bacteria from cystic pancreatic lesions that are precursors to pancreatic cancer, have been analyzed by researchers. The study can lead to prophylactic interventions using local antibiotics. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3G3f8VG

Million years of evolution have produced a dazzling variety of species, each uniquely adapted to its environment. A straightforward way to measuring biodiversity is by the number of species (taxonomic diversity). Recently, there is growing emphasis to quantify diversity also in other ways: a) functional diversity, which is the diversity of phenotypic traits that allow organisms to perform their ecological functions and b) phylogenetic diversity, meaning the variation in the branches in the tree of life. A team of scientists now compares these approaches: They found that species richness and functional diversity of Himalayan bat communities decline at high elevation without the loss of phylogenetic diversity. Their findings provide insights on the diversity of bats in the Himalayas and serve as an important baseline in assessing this diversity in the context of environmental changes. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3oa46YJ

A species of dolphin that hunts prey living 600 metres below the surface spins its body as it dives so it can drill down through the water rapidly from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3obbUJy

The Haast’s eagle had a beak and talons suited for capturing live prey, but its skull was adapted for ripping out organs from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/32S5Aih

Gene-edited foods may one day be sold in UK shops, but ethicists warn that using the technology in livestock may exacerbate animal welfare issues if, for example, it leads to the creation of disease-resistant animals that can be housed together more densely from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3E5sDnj

An analysis in the lead up to World AIDS Day reveals that HIV is 'virally suppressed' in only 59 per cent of children and adolescents on treatment. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3o84MxK

A new study has identified serpentinite -- a green rock that looks a bit like snakeskin and holds fluids in its mineral structures -- as a key driver of the oxygen recycling process, which helped create and maintain the sustaining atmosphere for life on Earth. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3xF5429

Monsoons are continental weather events produced when intense summer sunlight heats land more than ocean. But new supercomputer simulations show that North America's only monsoon works differently. The North American monsoon, which drenches western Mexico and the American Southwest each summer, is generated when the jet stream collides with the Sierra Madre mountains, which diverts it southward and upward, condensing moisture laden air from the eastern Pacific into torrential rains. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3Dbxn9H

A new decision-making framework designed by an international team of fisheries researchers can help fisheries bolster their ability to adapt to a warming world. The tool is meant to take a lot of the guesswork out of finding resilience in a time of climate change. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/31iAxeE

China's Père David's deer was nearly gone in the late 1800s. Just 18 deer -- the very last of their kind -- were brought into captivity after the rest had been hunted to extinction. When 11 of the deer reproduced, the species had a chance. Today, after centuries of reintroductions and breeding under human care, the population sits at around 3,000. It's a success story. But that success could come crashing down if chronic wasting disease (CWD) were to infect the population. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3o91TN3

Car tailpipes spew out molecules of ammonia, a harmful air pollutant that can lead to thousands of premature deaths every year. New research shows that vehicles may produce a lot more of these emissions than federal and state regulators have believed. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3o3L5qN

New clinical research indicates that a widely used food additive, carboxymethylcellulose, alters the intestinal environment of healthy persons, perturbing levels of beneficial bacteria and nutrients. These findings demonstrate the need for further study of the long-term impacts of this food additive on health. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3rnDUMn

New research gives a bird's-eye view of the scale of plastic creation globally, tracing where it's produced, where it ends up, and its environmental impact. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3d4ztha

Which diet is better: moderately reduce meat consumption and eat more fruit, vegetables and wholegrain products or eating more fish and seafood? Or even switch completely to a vegan diet? A new study shows that the answer to these questions is not as clear-cut as one might think -- depending on which impacts one closely looks. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3o5Q3n4

A new technological advancement uses an electric field to achieve efficient and low-cost ammonia removal from wastewater. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3d4Ear7

Vaccine makers are already adapting vaccines to fight the omicron coronavirus variant, but it will probably already have swept the world by the time these arrive from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3oaihgc

Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3E9745r

Monarch butterflies employ a sun compass on their long-distance migration. Surprisingly, a new study shows that the compass is only established during flight. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/31fdgdN

Demand response (DR) programs incentivize electric grid users to consume less power during peak hours, relieving grid load and reducing CO2 emissions. However, its potential as a practical approach remains unverified. Now, scientists propose an AI-based approach to estimate the DR potential per household based on real-world user behavior, demonstrating that DR programs are beneficial for customers, suppliers, and the environment. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3xFU7xB

Scientists have identified coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 from two bats sampled in Cambodia more than a decade ago. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3royele

New research in the tiny nematode worm, C. elegans, has revealed that muscle may be a protected tissue under conditions of dietary restriction. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3o7mQrN

Two supermassive black holes have been discovered just 1600 light years apart, and they are likely to collide in about 250 million years from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3paMvPH

Curtin University researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the Earth's water, finding the Sun to be a surprising likely source. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3lowRiF

The second hottest planet ever found is being pulled into its star faster than any planet we have seen before from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3FYSTjH

Epic expeditions ranging from the ceiling of the world to the frozen poles are captured in glorious photographs in Light and Shadows, an exhibition on now at the Royal Geographical Society from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3FYSQEx

Using observations from NASA's ICON mission, scientists presented the first direct measurements of Earth's long-theorized dynamo on the edge of space: a wind-driven electrical generator that spans the globe 60-plus miles above our heads. The dynamo churns in the ionosphere, the electrically charged boundary between Earth and space. It's powered by tidal winds in the upper atmosphere that are faster than most hurricanes and rise from the lower atmosphere, creating an electrical environment that can affect satellites and technology on Earth. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3E8p0x1

Researchers have discovered a new marine reptile. The specimen, a stunningly preserved meter-long skull, is one of the last surviving ichthyosaurs -- ancient animals that look eerily like living swordfish. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3llHqTp

Recent research compared the genetic expression profiles of a nonlethal canine tumor and the rare, devastating human oral tumor it resembles, laying the groundwork for potential translational medicine down the road. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/32Af6pS

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the only ocean current that circumnavigates the planet, is speeding up. For the first time, scientists are able to tell that this is happening by taking advantage of a decades-long set of observational records. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/2ZF09Su

Alternative-energy research is charting a path toward the mass adoption of clean cars powered by direct-ethanol fuel cells. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3I77mw0

A new international study shows how near-term mitigation can help to prevent an overshoot in global temperatures, thereby reducing climate risks and bringing long-term economic gains. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3d1JFH3

A recent study in mice has uncovered that during chronic viral infection, a protein called BMI-1 gets turned on too early in B cells and messes up the delicate balance of gene expression, resulting in antibodies that are unsuccessful in their endeavor to clear the virus from the body. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3o5VgLz

The world's eight most extreme wildfire weather years on record have occurred in the last decade, according to a new study that suggests extreme weather is being driven by a decrease in atmospheric humidity coupled with rising temperatures. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3E8d6Dl

New research provides interdisciplinary support for the 'Farming Hypothesis' of language dispersal, tracing Transeurasian languages back to the first farmers moving across Northeast Asia beginning in the Early Neolithic -- roughly between 8-10 thousand years ago. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/2ZE87LC

Swarms of tiny "xenobots" can self-replicate in the lab by pushing loose cells together – the first time this form of reproduction has been seen in multicellular organisms from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/2ZFYcFq

The extra-large, dagger-like canine teeth seen in male great apes have been missing from human ancestors for at least 4.5 million years – possibly because females opted for less aggressive partners from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/31c8vBe

Scientists describe how Antarctic fishes with and without hemoglobin react to acute thermal stress. The responses may help the fish withstand the impacts of climate change. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/31fbOaM

A Triassic herbivore, known for its supposed similarities to a modern-day ostrich, has been revealed to have entirely different approach to feeding from previously thought. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3E7QWkr

Novel autophagy research traces new mammalian pathways and reveals unexpected impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3ljytKk

COVID-19 saliva testing kits that include a novel preservative can also be used measure microscopic organisms in the mouth, a new study has found. This enables study of the relationship between mouth and lung microbes and the SARS-CoV-2 virus that may allow for the development of new treatments. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3xIPqDa

From 50,000 years to 6,000 years ago, many of the world's largest animals, including such iconic grassland grazers as the woolly mammoth, giant bison, and ancient horses, went extinct. The loss of these grazing species triggered a dramatic increase in fire activity in the world's grasslands, according to a new study. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3FSbSfM

An international research team have discovered a specific type of gut bacteria in bees that can improve memory. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3E5vDQL

Evidence from asteroids shows that charged particles from the sun can turn dust grains into water – a process that could be useful for space exploration too from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3140zTf

The oceans are a huge untapped store of uranium, which is vital for nuclear energy, and new technology could ensure a long-lasting supply from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3o4zQyp

Artificial intelligence-based technique reveals previously unknown cell components that may provide new clues to human development and disease. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3ll2qtz

A vaccine that changes the way our body responds to mosquito bites could protect us from diseases the insects carry, and also seems to make mosquitoes lay fewer eggs from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3llCoq3

A study of traditional ‘heirloom’ tomato varieties from Europe has revealed little genetic diversity despite their enormous variety in size, shape and colour from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3o2Tivx

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3p8wTvV

Compassion and sociability helped Homo sapiens survive climatic changes that wiped out other types of humans. Will those skills be enough to survive another bout of climate change? from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3xyn0vg

The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century -- decades earlier than records suggest -- due to warmer water flowing into the delicate polar ecosystem from the Atlantic Ocean. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3D1P6Af

The only dwarf planet in the inner solar system, Ceres will be at its closest to Earth for a week from the end of November. Catch it while you can, says Abigail Beall from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/2ZABRsQ

There are many open questions about the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that was first detected in South Africa. Here's what we know so far from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3xt3nF3

Two drug firms will be paid up to £10 million a year for an antibiotic by NHS England, no matter how much or little of the medicines are used from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3p28Ui5

Charlie Jane Anders delivers the ultimate answer to the stale ways women have been portrayed in sci-fi in her new collection of short stories from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3lcMtpi

There are many open questions about the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 detected in South Africa. Here's what we know so far from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3DWstPd

The area between a pair of large black holes on the verge of colliding could provide the conditions to create dangerous bubbles of "true vacuum" from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3DUodj5

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3cSrW4G

Breathtaking footage and celebrity narrators make Animal a rare treat, says Gregory Wakeman from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3nRmxkD

Nearly 200 countries have signed up to UNESCO's agreement on the ethics of artificial intelligence. This could help make the technology fairer for all, says Gabriela Ramos from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3p0fnKk

Greenwashing is rife and full of ineffectual suggestions for saving the planet. Here are four lifestyle changes that actually do make a difference for biodiversity from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3FI4cfW

The question of the causes of species extinction confronts science with complex tasks. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3DT3NXR

A combined experimental and computational study shows promising results for a new class of catalysts producing ammonia under mild conditions. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/30ZDTmm

Researchers have developed an innovative technique to track microbes and understand the various ways they process soil carbon, findings that add to our knowledge of how bacteria contribute to the global carbon cycle. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3nP0F9J

Continents that lost the most large grazing herbivores over the past 50,000 years have seen the biggest increases in grassland and savannah fires from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3E4Z19q

Small modular reactors are being pitched as an affordable and fast way to decarbonise power grids but questions about the technology abound from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3re2wXF

Tanzania's Ol Doinyo Lengai is the only volcano known to spew out carbonatite lava, which could offer fresh clues about Earth's mysterious mantle – but getting hold of a sample is no simple matter from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3nQhEbB

The climate crisis means we must urgently cut the huge emissions from sea transport. Engineering tricks, cleaner fuels and a return to the age of sail could all help swab the decks clean from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3nOHpZQ

How PR-person logic is challenging the notion of time, plus motion-detecting toilets and “interactive sonification of sexual arousal”, in Feedback’s weekly round-up from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3DNo154

Many people experience maths anxiety and some even mention feelings of "rage and despair". One way to improve the subject's perception is by playing down the Platonists, suggests Michael Brooks from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3DTcbXh

The monsoon that hits Mexico and the south-western US every year appears to be triggered by a jet stream over the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3xuoaIs

A new form of diamond created in the lab is as strong as natural diamond and better able to withstand heat from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3oYFh1d

Artificial intelligence trained on computer-generated images of clocks taken from different angles has succeeded in learning to read the time from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3135UK8

Don’t be too quick to write off influencers as vacuous kids, they are much more important than that, writes Olivia Yallop in her book Break the Internet: In pursuit of influence from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3HTS6m4

Facebook's parent company wants to build a 'metaverse'. The fact that it doesn't grasp the name's connotations is symptomatic of a wider problem, writes Annalee Newitz from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3oXlyyW

Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, can be captured and transformed into protein-rich feed for farmed fish -- an increasingly important food sector. A new analysis shows how to make the approach more cost-effective than current fish feeds. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3r5AihR

Obesity, diabetes and gastrointestinal cancer are frequently linked to an unhealthy diet. However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for this are not fully understood. Researchers have gained some new insights that help to better understand this connection. These findings provide an important basis for the development of non-invasive therapies. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3oXbRR0

Phages are viruses that infect bacteria and can also be used to treat human infections. However, as with antibiotics, bacteria can readily evolve resistance to phage attack, highlighting a key limitation to the use of phages as therapeutics. Now, researchers have shown that the naturally occurring phage A1-1 kills Shigella flexneri, a major cause of dysentery in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia and selects for phage-resistant mutants with reduced virulence. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/30ZTQZK

Among their many extraordinary feats, some planarian flatworms reproduce by tearing off pieces of themselves to regenerate new worms. Now, researchers have discovered that this process is controlled by Hox genes, a family of genes known to orchestrate important aspects of early development. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3l1Slld

The idea of what constitutes consciousness is split between the functional and the experiential from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3nMXm2G

Retrofitting existing masonry cavity walled buildings with a green or living wall could be a game-changer in helping countries achieve net-zero commitments. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/2ZkgsUu

Referred to as 'China's Venice of the Stone Age', the Liangzhu excavation site in eastern China is considered one of the most significant testimonies of early Chinese advanced civilization. More than 5000 years ago, the city already had an elaborate water management system. Until now, it has been controversial what led to the sudden collapse. Massive flooding triggered by anomalously intense monsoon rains caused the collapse, as geologists and climate researchers have now shown. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/32pYm4x

New research shows how switching from a restricted diet to eating as much as you like could be beneficial for reproduction in later life. Researchers studied the eating and mating habits of the small fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. They found that those that switched from a restricted diet to unlimited food, started mating and reproducing more. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3l3mkcA

Good news for those of us who can't face the day without their morning flat white: a long-term study has revealed drinking higher amounts of coffee may make you less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3xsUmMk

A new study has revealed the death rate of babies in ancient societies is not a reflection of poor healthcare, disease and other factors, but instead is an indication of the number of babies born in that era. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3oWJZfQ

A little-known species of tropical bee has evolved an extra tooth for biting flesh and a gut that more closely resembles that of vultures rather than other bees. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3r4tAIL

The recovery of new lumbar vertebrae from the lower back of a single individual of the human relative, Australopithecus sediba, and portions of other vertebrae of the same female from Malapa, South Africa, together with previously discovered vertebrae, form one of the most complete lower backs ever discovered in the early hominid record and give insight into how this ancient human relative walked and climbed. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3DOUlok

Feeding mice a probiotic of harmless bacteria helps prevent harmful microbes entering the blood where they could build up and potentially cause a condition called sepsis from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3nNQvWG

A sediment core from Svalbard has revealed a sudden influx of warm water in the Arctic in 1907, which is evidence of a process that is spurring ice loss from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/30Tox3s

A new form of diamond created by crushing buckyballs is as strong as natural diamond and better able to withstand heat from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3xroWpt

We once shared the planet with at least seven other types of human. Ironically, our success may have been due to our deepest vulnerability: being dependent on others from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/32p85Il

A twist on the classic Leidenfrost effect sees orbs of different liquids repel each other as they float on a hot plate from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/2ZiyPsW

Exposure to deep red or near-infrared light can improve the function of the eye’s mitochondria, the powerhouses in cells, resulting in slight but lasting improvement to declining eyesight from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3DOoc0b

In high enough concentrations, milkweed can kill a horse, or a human. To be able to eat this plant, monarchs evolved a set of unusual cellular mutations. New research shows the animals that prey on monarchs also evolved these same mutations. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3CNH9Pd

A tooth from a Neanderthal child who lived 120,000 years ago suggests that our cousin species began cutting their baby teeth at 4 months – earlier than for the average modern human from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3nJGYQu

The petrochemical industry turns oil and gas into precursors used to synthesize lubricants and other critical products. Chemists show that bacteria can be metabolically engineered to generate similar precursors, providing a sustainable replacement for fossil fuels and using less energy. The microbes need only glucose. The medium-chain hydrocarbons they produce can be broken down into shorter chains and polymerized into plastics, or lengthened to make products such as diesel. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3l3HRBN

Speech sounds elicit comparable neural responses and stimulate the same region in the brain of humans, macaques and guinea pigs, researchers report. The finding could help pave the way for better understanding and diagnosis of auditory processing deficits. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3nLCx83

'Plague sceptics' are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th to 8th centuries CE, argues a new study based on ancient texts and recent genetic discoveries. The same study suggests that bubonic plague may have reached England before its first recorded case in the Mediterranean via a currently unknown route, possibly involving the Baltic and Scandinavia. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3FzcDua

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that multidrug-resistant bacteria and bacterial spores can be killed by ultrashort-pulse lasers. The findings could lead to new ways to sterilize wounds and blood products without damaging human cells. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3DPKoa1

Researchers have conducted an empirical field study and concluded that single urban trees, such as street trees, function differently than trees grown in clusters featuring significantly greater transpiration rates. This result offers a new understanding of how to manage the landscape in urban settings to reduce the harmful effects of stormwater runoff. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3FGeZqZ

Scientists have used glowing chemicals and other techniques to create a 3D map of the blood vessels and self-renewing 'stem' cells that line and penetrate a mouse skull. The map provides precise locations of blood vessels and stem cells that scientists could eventually use to repair wounds and generate new bone and tissue in the skull. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3r4V4hx

Researchers have new evidence that could help rapidly boost efforts to scale-up the adoption of clean cooking with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in sub-Saharan Africa. The new study suggests that supply-side interventions such as shortening the distance to LPG retail points and improving access to multi-burner LPG stoves could help increase the consumption of the clean cooking fuels, for the benefit of public health, gender equality and environmental protection. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/32nb445

Salmon found near the mouth of the Cowichan river on Vancouver Island are a hybrid species of coho and Chinook, which may have arisen as the timing and location of their spawning grounds overlapped from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3xfmz9h

A 21-year study of a patch of tropical forest shows that the trees produce less wood in years when temperatures are higher, suggesting these forests will mop up less carbon dioxide in future from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3xkqVfo

A living ink made entirely from bacterial cells can be 3D-printed to make structures that release anti-cancer drugs or mop up toxins from the environment from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/30NecGd

An analysis of satellite data from 293 cities in Europe has found that trees have a big cooling effect while other green spaces do not from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3nKL6Qd

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3HFpa0S

The discovery of new Australopithecus sediba fossils mean we can now reconstruct most of the spine of one individual, and strengthen the case that the species was bipedal at least some of the time from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3xtpHi1

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is scheduled to launch on 24 November and will smash into the asteroid Dimorphos from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3DGASGa

Bulb’s collapse may not directly affect the amount of investment flowing into new UK renewable projects, but is nonetheless a bad look for such a high profile green energy firm to fail. from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3cGtO0q

With wildfires devastating mountain ecosystems across the western United States, their successful forest revegetation recovery hinges on, among other factors, an adequate lasting snowpack, according to new research. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3DESLFk

Joining the global effort to curb air pollution, researchers have developed computational tools to accurately assess the footprint of certain organic atmospheric pollutants. Their simulation could help government agencies keep a closer check on human-made sources of carbon-based pollutants. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3r2s4H1

Companies in the digital technology industry are significantly underreporting the greenhouse gas emissions arising along the value chain of their products. Across a sample of 56 major tech companies surveyed, more than half of these emissions were excluded from self-reporting in 2019. At approximately 390 megatons carbon dioxide equivalents, the omitted emissions are in the same ballpark as the carbon footprint of Australia. The research team has developed a method for spotting sources of error and calculating the omitted disclosures. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3FEmqz1

A scientist has discovered a method for detecting and better defining meteorite impact sites that have long lost their tell-tale craters. The discovery could further the study of not only Earth's geology but also that of other bodies in our solar system. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3CO9jcY

By the late 21st century, northeastern U.S. cities will see worsening hurricane outcomes, with storms arriving more quickly but slowing down once they've made landfall. As storms linger longer over the East Coast, they will cause greater damage along the heavily populated corridor, according to a new study. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/32doEH9

A material made with layers that have different tensions wrinkles when heated, which can be used to reflect light such that an object matches its surroundings from New Scientist - Home https://ift.tt/3DJsJRq

Volcanic gases are helping researchers track large-scale movements in Earth's deep interior. Scientists have discovered anomalous geochemical compositions beneath Panama. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3CTvJtn

Understanding how climate change will affect the flooding of rivers may become easier with a new framework for assessing flood risk that's been developed by an interdisciplinary team. from Top Environment News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/3oLs63s