Topline A lethal, skin-eating fungus has been rapidly spreading across African wildlife since the turn of the century, scientists warned Wednesday, shedding light on an unnoticed amphibian plague that...
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The Young Entrepreneurs And Scientists Working To Save The Planet
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Alisha Fredriksson GUERIN BLASK FOR FORBE...
Scientists Discover A Cheap Way To Recycle Plastic
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Melanie Hess-Robinson | Pacific Northwest...
Scientists Are Testing Virtual Reality For Pain Relief
Earlier this month, scientists published a ground-breaking study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research discussing the efficacy of virtual reality (VR) as a means for pain relief. The study exami...
A Covid Test Targeting The Fast-Spreading XBB.1.5 ‘Kraken’ Variant Is Being Developed By Scientists
Topline Swiss pharma giant Roche on Thursday launched a new Covid test designed to help researchers find the highly contagious omicron offshoot XBB.1.5—unofficially nicknamed “Kraken”—a mutant that is...
Greenland Ice Sheet Warmest In At Least 1,000 Years As Scientists Warn Melting Ice Will Accelerate Sea-Level Rise
Topline Recent temperatures in Greenland’s ice sheet—one of the primary culprits behind rising seas—were the warmest they’ve been in at least 1,000 years, according to a new report, as scientists warn...
‘The Last Of Us’ Zombie Infection Is Real—Here’s What Scientists Say About The Threat To Humans
Topline HBO’s hotly anticipated TV adaptation of the acclaimed Last of Us game series premiered on Sunday, showcasing the world after a devastating fungal pandemic wiped out most of humanity, a fictio...
Arctic getting warmer, stormier from climate change: scientists
Martin Leonhard of the East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP) operates snow blower putting a new snow floor for the winter-storage weather port tent at EastGRIP camp on August 9, 2022. EastGRIP is...
Can You Catch A Cold From Being Cold? Scientists Say Yes, And It Turns Out The Answer Was Right Under Our Noses
Topline A newly discovered immune response inside the nose could explain why respiratory illnesses like RSV, Covid, the common cold and flu thrive in winter, according to research published Tuesday in...
Global Carbon Emissions Showed No Signs Of Decline This Year, Scientists Warn
Topline Global carbon emissions continued to rise this year and have shown no signs of slowing down, the Global Carbon Project said Thursday, as world leaders push for new initiatives to halt climate ...
Exxon Improperly Fired Scientists Suspected of Sharing Information, Labor Department Finds
Listen to article (2 minutes) The Labor Department said it found Exxon Mobil illegally fired two company scientists over suspicions they shared information with The Wall Street Journal about concerns ...
Decentralized Science DAOs Empower Scientists and Scientific Research
HodlX Guest Post Submit Your Post Science holds the key to our civilization’s growth and progress. But still, most of the world’s great scientists have suffered tremendously – ever since Galileo an...
Scientists Building Up Arsenal To Destroy PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’
Topline Researchers at Northwestern University outlined a potential way to destroy the synthetic so-called “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, the l...
Scientists Partially Revived Pig Organs An Hour After Death In ‘Stunning’ New Research
Topline Scientists at the Yale School of Medicine restored circulation to pigs’ hearts and brains one hour after they died, according to new research published Wednesday in the journal Nature that rai...
Scientists identify likely cause of mysterious childrens liver disease
More than 1,000 children in 35 countries have developed an unidentified type of severe acute hepatitis — or liver inflammation — since the first case was reported in the January 2022. Yanukit Raiva | ...
U.S. scientists to enroll 40,000 in high-stakes, $1.2 billion Recover study
A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 test at testing site in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The National Institutes of He...
Scientists Find Eyelash-Sized Bacterium—Largest Ever Discovered
Topline Scientists in the Caribbean have discovered the largest known bacterium, coming in at one centimeter, or roughly the size of a human eyelash—5,000 times larger than most bacteria. The bacteriu...
Australian computer scientists make quantum computing breakthrough
Computer scientists from Sydney, Australia, have announced a breakthrough in quantum computing by designing the world’s first integrated circuit computer created at an atomic scale. The computer creat...
How NFTs and Science DAO Are Helping Scientists Access More Funding
The scientific community, like any other sector, runs on money and projects in the space constantly need funding to be able to move forward. Ask any scientist and they will tell you that a huge part o...
WHO Will Change Monkeypox Virus Name—Here’s Why Scientists Believe It’s Stigmatizing
Topline The World Health Organization on Tuesday announced it was working with experts to change the name of the monkeypox virus that has spread to more than 20 countries in recent weeks, after a grou...
Scientists claim to have designed a fully decentralized stablecoin pegged to electricity
Researchers at the federally funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have combined statistical mechanics and information theory to design a class of stablecoin dubbed the Electrici...
Monarch Butterfly Populations Remain Stable Despite Scientists’ Warnings Of Extinction, Study Finds
Topline Monarch butterfly breeding populations have remained stable since 1993, a study published in Global Change Biology on Friday found, disputing previous concerns raised by scientists that the bu...
Computer Scientists Say Crypto Industry Is Misleading the Public About Blockchain Technology: Report
A group of technology experts is calling upon officials in Washington to crack down on what they believe to be misleading lobbying from the crypto industry. According to a report from The Financial Ti...
Computer scientists unveil rapid energy-efficient Bitcoin mining algorithms
Quantum Blockchain has unveiled a new Bitcoin mining algorithm that improves the current crypto mining hardware through increased speed and energy efficiency. In a press release on May 23, the compan...
Scientists shed new light on how early stage breast cancer spreads to other organs
A consultant analyzing a mammogram. Rui Vieira | PA Wire | Getty Images Scientists have shed new light on how early stage breast cancer spreads to other organs undetected, which can cause fatal metast...
Climate Scientists Are Concerned About Carbon Linked Cryptocurrency Coins
Clima’s price soared to nearly $3,600 in October 2021 before plummeting to roughly $20 this month. During that time, the token offset ranged between $2 and $9. Crypto traders are scanning carbon marke...