A research platform floats above the Yongle blue hole, whose 130-metre-wide mouth is surrounded by coral reefs. Credit: P. Yao et al./JGR Biogeosciences Ocean sciences 23 February 2020 The Yongle marine cavern provides a window onto unusual ocean chemistry. Carbon more than 8,000 years old lies deep inside a yawning sinkhole in the South China
At least a few executives at major automakers have indicated that electric cars are the way of the future, and several of them are making big bets on battery-powered vehicles. But at least in the United States, the market seems to belong almost entirely to Tesla. The California carmaker’s Model 3 midsize sedan far outstripped
Team-members from Recycle Health Recycle Health For many of us, wearable gadgets that track steps, heart rate and other health metrics are a novelty item to play around with for a few weeks. After that, they end up in a drawer to gather dust. Lisa Gualtieri, an assistant professor at Tufts Medical School, is asking
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – As Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau considers whether to approve Teck Resources’ Frontier oil sands project, roughly 20 others sit on the shelf as companies delay investment decisions hoping for new pipelines and higher prices. FILE PHOTO: Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to news media in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada February
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is looking to raise about $250 million (roughly Rs. 1,797 crores), taking the private rocket company’s valuation to about $36 billion (roughly Rs. 2,58,795 crores), CNBC reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the financing. The company plans to raise the amount at a price of $220 (roughly Rs. 15,800) per share and
A study has found that students are more engaged in laboratory courses that are designed to emphasize and teach experimentation skills (Courtesy:iStock/AlexPotemkin) Lab sessions designed to emphasize and teach experimentation skills, rather than reinforce lecture content, improve student attitudes towards experimental physics. That is according to a study by researchers from Cornell University and the
The petroleum-based adhesives used to make plywood could be replaced by a soya-based formula. Credit: Alamy Organic chemistry 21 February 2020 Chemists have borrowed a strategy from plant cell walls to produce a high-strength wood adhesive. An element that props up plants’ cell walls can turn soya protein into a strong and eco-friendly glue. The
WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence said in a Feb. 19 speech that the administration’s budget proposal for NASA to support a human return to the moon by 2024 has bipartisan support, a claim echoed by NASA despite criticism about some proposed cuts in the bill. Pence, speaking at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia,
NASA’s most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft that carried Curiosity succeeded in every step of the most complex landing
On December 2nd, 2015, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire on the city of San Bernardino, California, leaving 14 people, and the two shooters, dead. During the investigation the FBI obtained Farook’s iPhone, but could not access it through the passcode. They went Apple to unlock it, and Apple couldn’t help. The iPhone’s
Civets are thought to have be the source of the virus that causes SARS.Credit: Marc Anderson/Alamy China’s top law-making body is expected to permanently tighten rules on trading wildlife in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, which is thought to have originated in a wild-animal market in Wuhan. Scientists speculate that this could include a
WASHINGTON — SpaceX has revived plans to develop a launch vehicle manufacturing facility at the Port of Los Angeles, a little more than a year after it abandoned its original agreement there. The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners approved on a voice vote Feb. 20 an agreement between the port and SpaceX to lease
A bird conducting a foraging trial chooses between disgusting “prey” marked with a square and tasty food marked with a cross. (Courtesy: University of Cambridge) When faced with potential prey, how do predators know to avoid those that taste disgusting and potentially contain toxic chemicals? According to a study published earlier this week, for some
A woman covers her mouth during a sandstorm blown over from North Africa known as “calima” at Las Palmas Airport, Canary Islands, Gran Canaria, Spain February 22, 2020. REUTERS/Borja Suarez GRAN CANARIA, Spain (Reuters) – Spain’s airport operator AENA suspended all flights in and out of Gran Canaria and all flights leaving Tenerife on Saturday
Curl is among a broad swath of executives within Silicon Valley who are avid fans of Lord of the Rings, or LOTR for short. Courtesy of Matt Curl As San Francisco marketing-tech start-up Fivestars struggled to raise money in late 2015, Matt Curl, senior vice president of business operations, gave his deputies three books as
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here Escherichia coli bacteria, coloured green, in a scanning electron micrograph.Credit: Stephanie Schuller/SPL A machine-learning approach has spotted powerful new types of antibiotic from a pool of more than 100 million molecules, including one that works against
One of the largest single items is $255 million to launch two GPS 3 satellites WASHINGTON — Soon after the Pentagon’s budget request is submitted to Congress each year, the military services send to Capitol Hill a separate wish list known as “unfunded priorities.” These are items the military would like Congress to fund if
A contractor for First Solar Inc. works on construction of the Tenaska Imperial Solar Energy Center South project in Imperial County, California. Sam Hodgson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Dropbox — Shares of the data services company soared 13% during extended trading after the company announced
Journalists sit in the media center during the meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 22, 2020. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri RIYADH (Reuters) – The United States is against mentioning climate change in the communique of the world’s financial leaders, G20 diplomats said, after a new draft of the joint
A Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy Z Flip smartphone is displayed during the Samsung Unpacked product launch event in San Francisco, California, U.S. on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images I reviewed Samsung’s latest phone with a folding screen, the Galaxy Z Flip, earlier this week. It’s neat, but it’s still
In a first, US researchers have used artificial intelligence to identify a powerful new antibiotic capable of killing several drug-resistant bacteria. Antibiotics have been a cornerstone of modern medicine since the discovery of penicillin, but their effectiveness has seriously diminished in recent years as overuse has led to bacteria becoming resistant. The scientists at MIT
Photographs of patterns on a PET film after evaporation of drops of mixtures of acid red 1 (upper) and acid blue 25 (lower) solutions with 0 mM (left) and 16.0 mM (right) NaCl, respectively. Courtesy: Chinese Physics Letters Trace amounts of salt can help control the “coffee-ring effect” that occurs when a solvent evaporates from
Methane bubbles trapped in ice. Methane that has long been stored in frozen ground is unlikely to be released in sufficient amounts to accelerate climate change. Credit: Alamy Climate change 21 February 2020 Bubbles in Antarctic ice suggest that warming will not result in massive release of long-buried methane. Runaway global warming driven by the
WASHINGTON — Engineers plan to use the robotic arm on its InSight Mars lander to push a heat flow probe into the surface, acknowledging that they have “few alternatives” if that effort fails. The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package instrument team has spent nearly a year trying to get the instrument’s probe, or “mole,”
As the energy industry faces a time of reckoning — pressured by consistently low oil prices, high operating costs and a growing sustainable investing movement — oil and gas companies are increasingly turning to Silicon Valley for help streamlining operations and boosting efficiencies. By some estimates, the addressable market for digital oil and gas solutions
(Reuters) – California is suing the administration of President Donald Trump for what it calls the administration’s failure to protect endangered species in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. FILE PHOTO: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (L) speaks about President Trump’s proposal to weaken national greenhouse gas emission and fuel efficiency regulations as he stands
Parallel to the rapid spread of coronavirus from Wuhan China to 25 countries across the globe, spread of myths and even scientific studies with no peer reviews or ‘preprints’ on the novel virus has become viral and is contributing to fear and panic across the globe. Even public health scientists have issued a statement condemning
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 11, 2018. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Google has reached a settlement with state attorneys general over outside consultants hired to work on the states’ antitrust investigation, CNBC has learned. The settlement means that potential
Researchers taught a neural network to recognize a type of knot called a 31, which can be modelled as a string of beads (left) or a string of rods (right). Credit: O. Vandans et al./Phys. Rev. E Physics 21 February 2020 After training, an artificial-intelligence program can distinguish between five types of knot with 99%
Civil aviation is one of the premiere success stories of the 20th century. Airmail was authorized by the US government in 1911 and began scheduled service in 1918. The federal government then authorized private contractors to carry the mail in 1925. An aviation boom followed. With the establishment of passenger airline service — initiated by
Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses on the red carpet as he arrives for the 43rd “Golden Steering Wheel” awards on November 12, 2019 in Berlin. Tobias Schwarz | AFP via Getty Images Tesla has been given the go-ahead from a German court to cut down trees for its new European factory. Though it doesn’t yet
A metallic glass rod being drawn into a metallic glass wire and SEM image of the hot-drawn metallic glass wires. Courtesy: Chinese Physics Letters Metallic glasses are promising materials for structural engineering, but their poor ductility makes them brittle, limiting their applications. Researchers in China have now shown that these glasses can be made much
APALACHICOLA, Fla. (Reuters) – Standing in his boat in Florida’s Apalachicola Bay, Michael Dasher lowered a long pair of tongs into the water, pulling up a muddy mass of oysters that his son sorted, keeping those big enough to sell and tossing the rest back into the brackish bay. Michael Dasher, Jr., measures and culls
People wait in line to vote on the final day of early voting for the upcoming Nevada Democratic presidential caucus on February 18, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mario Tama | Getty Images LAS VEGAS — Democrats in Nevada seek to tamp down fears their Saturday caucus will repeat the botched contest in Iowa, which
The deserted streets of Wuhan, China.Credit: Getty The outbreak of a new coronavirus is wreaking havoc worldwide. In China, the epicentre of the epidemic, the virus has infected tens of thousands of people and killed more than 2,100. Unprecedented measures meant to contain the spread have brought millions of daily lives to a halt, and
Ultrasound is a powerful tool for looking inside the body. The scans see through layers of tissue to reveal pumping hearts, developing fetuses, troublesome blood clots, and injured muscles. They are relatively low-cost, portable, and have few side effects. Patients aren’t exposed to ionizing radiation or confined in a small space. They are, however, slathered
Satellite builders booked more commercial orders in 2019 than the prior two years combined, but the industry remains in flux This article originally appeared in the Jan. 20, 2020 issue of SpaceNews magazine. Manufacturers are hopeful that 2019 marked the beginning of a turnaround for geostationary satellite orders, even though their market remains fraught with
PamWalker68 | iStock | Getty Images The U.K. government is phasing out the sale of both wet wood and house coal for “domestic burning” as it seeks to encourage the use of cleaner fuels in households. In an announcement Friday, the government said coal fires and wood-burning stoves — a traditional feature in many homes
US scientists announced Wednesday they had created the first 3D atomic scale map of the part of the Novel Coronavirus that attaches to and infects human cells, a critical step toward developing vaccines and treatments. It came as the death toll from the COVID-19 virus jumped past 2,000, almost all of them in mainland China
Emmanuel Sabonnadière is the CEO of CEA-Leti, a research institute for electronics and information technologies, based in Grenoble, France. During the recent Photonics West conference in San Francisco, Sabonnadière and his colleagues hosted an event to showcase the institute’s latest developments in microelectronics and nanotechnology. Before the event, Physics World caught up with Sabonnadière to
Chinese telecom giant Huawei announced on October 16, 2019 that it has passed the 400,000 5G antennas mark, the fifth generation of mobile phones, in the world with 56 operators who have already started to roll out the new mobile network. STEFAN WERMUTH | AFP | Getty Images Plans by the United States to create
It’s a great feeling when your manuscript is accepted, but the peer-review process after that can be tough, particularly for first-time authors. In the second episode of this four-part series on publishing a paper, Adam Levy asks four researchers and a manuscript editor how best to respond when your paper is rejected or subjected to
Building a military space culture may not require mass transfers of Army, Navy units to the Space Force The creation of the U.S. Space Force is a historic event, but many years of hard work lie ahead before we know what form the new service will take. One unanswered question that will shape the new
A kaleidoscope of color, the Great Barrier Reef is a natural wonder. Located in waters off the coast of Queensland, Australia, it boasts a wide variety of life, from soft and hard coral to fish, molluscs, plankton, whales and dolphins. Attracting tourists from around the world, it also makes a substantial contribution to the country’s
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here Tutankhamun’s burial place in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt.Credit: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Archaeologists claim to have discovered hidden chambers behind the walls of Tutankhamun’s tomb in a radar survey. The find resurrects a controversial theory that
WASHINGTON — Airbus Group will shed about 7% of the workforce at its Airbus Defence and Space division after three years of weak sales, the company said Feb. 19. A “flat space market and postponed contracts on the defence side” of its business prompted the decision to cut 2,362 positions, Airbus Group CEO Guillaume Faury
Oil production in Azerbaijan Vostok Oil prices fell on Friday with fears for fuel demand growing as the coronavirus epidemic that originated in China spread further beyond the country, while major crude producers stood pat on taking early action to cut output to support the market. Brent crude was down 24 cents, or 0.4%, at
New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley (26) celebrates as wide receiver Russell Shepard (81) comes to the sideline during the National Football League preseason game against the New York Jets on August 8, 2019. Rick Graessle | Icon Sportswire | Getty Images The National Football League has released the new terms for its new
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