TBNScientists find a carbon cycle hiding in desert minerals
On the surface, the arid expanses of the Mojave Desert may seem inhospitable and largely removed from the global carbon cycle.
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On the surface, the arid expanses of the Mojave Desert may seem inhospitable and largely removed from the global carbon cycle.
STAT’s Jason Mast joins the podcast from Shanghai, where he’s digging into what the rise of Chinese drug development means for the biotech industry.
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Selecting profitable investments from an increasingly large and constrained pool of assets could become more effective with a hybrid quantum-classical method, according to research in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology.
As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first.
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF), a new investment fund launched at COP30 by Brazil, has attracted about $7.3 billion in initial sponsor capital.
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Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah said on Thursday that last month’s catastrophic floods were a “warning to the world” of growing climate risks in the Himalayas.
An important question is how measures to conserve biodiversity affect the profitability of forest operations focused on wood production.
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have established one of the first long-term acoustic baselines for the Arctic's underwater soundscape.
Credit: SpaceX Four crew members from three space agencies will launch to the International Space Station no earlier than spring 2027 for a long-duration science expedition as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-14 mission.
In an editorial in Science, U.S.-based energy policy experts Paasha Mahdavi and Michael Ross argue that governments creating consumer fossil fuel subsidies in response to rising energy prices is the “worst energy policy in the world.” Mahdavi, an associate professor at the University of California,
The leaders of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands have issued a strong call to action to industrial nations and the international community to act on the climate crisis.
During NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission aboard the International Space Station, astronauts will support a series of biomedical and human performance investigations, including a new collaborative effort to study how spaceflight affects blood flow and clotting.
Prime Minister Balendra Shah says world leaders must act on climate change.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Special Operations Bill 2026 is primarily a response to crime and insecurity.
On September 24, Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Jay Obernolte (R-CA), Don Beyer (D-VA), Lori Trahan (D-MA), and James Gallagher (R-CA) introduced the bipartisan American Leadership in Fusion Act to accelerate commercial fusion acceleration.
Trump and Xi Jinping's high-stakes Washington summit was closely watched in Europe, as Pope Leo XIV arrives in France for the first time.
Pakistan's security forces report ongoing cross-border fire in latest fighting with Afghanistan.
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