Research, climate change, and environmental issues.
Introduction Researchers have announced that they have successfully generated direct spin currents using ultrashort laser pulses in 2024. For this invention, which was successfully implemented, the newly developing field of spintronics will become transformed. Research in this field has received great attention because it has the potential to carry out efficient realization of faster and…
Pfizer recently announced promising early findings for its experimental drug, ponsegromab, which is an anti-cancer cachexia medicine. Cancer cachexia is a potentially life-threatening condition that causes loss of appetite and incredible weight loss in cancer patients. The disease affects around 9 million people worldwide, and the overall survival time of patients with this disease is…
Summer 2024 is now the hottest on record, another milestone marking an accelerating global climate crisis. According to NASA, the three-month period from June through August this year averaged 0.2°F above any previously recorded summer; it eclipses the previous record set just last year, in 2023. This temperature rise has been provoked mainly by human-made…
Hurricane Francine churned into Louisiana early Wednesday, September 11, 2024, with powerful winds, heavy rain, and life-threatening storm surges. Hurricane Francine, passing over southern Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane, caused destruction, flash flood emergencies, and plunged hundreds of thousands into darkness. The storm made landfall in Terrebonne Parish at around 5 p.m. with continuous…
These efforts to promote cleaner alternatives received a major fillip this month when U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack expressed confidence that by January 2024, a new clean fuels tax credit will be in place. The development falls squarely under the Biden administration’s broader agenda of combating climate change and shifting the country toward greener…
For decades, the Antarctic region has long been regarded as one of the most extreme environments on the planet. Now, record-low winter sea-ice coverage is about to set a new mark for the second year in a row. This shocking turn of events underlines more and more how global climate change is taking a toll…
