Research, climate change, and environmental issues.
A major new study published in 2024 ends the long-held assumption that intermittent renewables like wind and solar are more prone to causing blackouts. Published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, the widely covered study brings a fresh perspective to ongoing debates on energy reliability, renewable infrastructure, and future policy development. Here’s a thorough…
Scientists recently discovered that certain strains of bacteria can suppress the population of mosquitoes in significant ways, promising a new direction for global public health. It opens a new avenue of preventing dengue, Zika, and malaria, diseases killing hundreds of thousands each year. Scientists are hoping that this bacterial method is more sustainable and not…
Astronomers have detected a black hole in the early universe that appears to be devouring matter at rates over 40 times bigger than any known theoretical limits. Dubbed LID-568, this object is approximately 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, and its unexpected feeding frenzy shocked researchers. That immediately opens up a whole series of…
A revolutionary study, released in early 2024, shook the scientific and general world when, for the first time, biochemists made protocells to study the origin of cell membranes. These experiments, carried out in various labs and published in leading scientific journals, opened new frontiers for research in how lipids might have created the first boundaries…
An astonishing discovery of a giant fossil “terror bird” has provided extraordinary evidence about South America’s ecosystem 12 million years ago. This towering bird, estimated at over 2.5 meters tall, was at the top of the food chain in the prehistoric world. It is an exceptionally well-preserved case of this fossil, which, from its strong…
A landmark study, published in 2024 and linking the chronic skin disorder known as hidradenitis suppurativa—or HS—with increased health risk for both mothers and children, has been generated. The longitudinal study, underlining the significant associations between HS and adverse maternal and child health outcomes, was conducted by researchers affiliated with McGill University and the University…
Astrophysicists have just made some remarkable observations of the “dance” of electrons in the radioactive glow emitted following the collision of neutron stars. This glow—a by-product of an intense cosmic event called a kilonova—is, for the first time, helping scientists directly measure microscopic particle temperatures. These observations of the dance of electrons accelerated by turbulent…
Introduction In 2024, a new image recognition technique will give scientists new ways to count particles at the micro level and analyze the process of diffusion. The innovation is expected to impact several fields such as material science, biology, and physics since it ensures that more precise data of particle dynamics in real time is…
The scientific and engineering communities are quite captivated by the amazing capabilities of octopuses. Their biomimetic research, which focuses on trying to recreate these dynamics in robotics, has been inspired by their fluid, efficient movement through water. The development of a simplified octopus-inspired swimming robot with soft asymmetric arms has marked another milestone in this…
Overview of the Discovery In a landmark study now online in October 2024, researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have made a discovery wherein a synthetic precursor of vitamin K called menadione was found to significantly delay the growth of prostate cancer in mice. This team was headed by the lead researcher, Professor Lloyd Trotman,…
