Rising Global Conflict: Impact of Climate Change on World Events
In his recent book, The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence, political correspondent Peter Schwartzstein provides a detailed account of how climate change is causing conflicts worldwide. Each chapter presents...
Global Warming: UN Warns Chance of Limiting to 1.5C ‘Virtually Zero’
Limiting global warming to 1.5C seems like an almost impossible task based on current trends, the UN's environment body warns. The Emissions Gap Report for this year reveals that greenhouse gas emissions in 2023...
Exploring the Endurance Expedition: Incredible 3D Scan Details of Shackleton’s Antarctica Journey
The Endurance, the ship famously lost during Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition, has been the subject of detailed 3D scans and underwater photographs by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust. These images offer...
Impact of the Data Use and Access Bill on Data Handling: What You Need...
The Data Use and Access Bill is not as boring as it sounds. The government claims that it could have a significant impact on various sectors, including the economy, healthcare, law enforcement, and infrastructure....
Mystery Surrounds Boeing Satellite Failure in Orbit
Boeing's Intelsat 33e satellite, a major communications satellite, has experienced a mysterious breakdown in orbit, resulting in the dispersion of at least 20 fragments of space debris throughout Earth's atmosphere and impacting users worldwide....
Long-term Polar Climate Data Transformed into Eerie 6-Minute Song
A Japanese scientist named Hiroto Nagai, who is also an associate professor at Rissho University in Tokyo, has used climate data from the Arctic and Antarctic to create a 6-minute chamber music composition for...
E. coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders: Nearly 50 Illnesses, 1 Death
An E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders has affected nearly 50 people in 10 states, resulting in one death. Health officials suspect that either the onions or beef in the Quarter Pounders...
Uncovering Lost Silk Road Cities in Central Asia’s High Mountains
Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along the historic Silk Road, archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery of two lost medieval cities that thrived over a thousand years ago. The first city,...
Black Hole Jets: Largest Pair Stretches 23 Million Light-Years
An extraordinary discovery has been made by a team of physicists who observed the largest black hole jets ever seen in a galaxy 7.5 billion light-years away. These massive jets, named Porphyrion after a...
Mapping the Universe: Euclid Telescope Unveils First 3D Section, 99% to Go
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has unveiled the first section of what will be the largest 3D map of the universe ever created. This section is filled with 14 million galaxies and...