Five of the world’s largest banks are greenwashing their role in the destruction of the Amazon, according to a report indicating that their environmental and social guidelines are failing to cover more than 70% of the rainforest. The institutions are said to have provided billions of dollars in financing to oil and gas companies involved … Read more
New research has found that shipworms digest wood using symbiotic microbes in their guts, a discovery that overturns previous insights and has significant implications for biotechnology and environmental modeling. A cross-section of Belfast dock pilings, riddled with shipwormholes. Credit: Barry Goodell Unlocking the secrets of the world’s most fascinating and destructive mollusk could impact everything … Read more
There is a lot of fear that robots will replace humans. But maybe it should be the machines that worry about us. Swedish scientists have created the world’s first ‘living computer’ made from human brain tissue. It consists of 16 organoids, or clumps of brain cells grown in a laboratory, that transmit information to each … Read more
WASHINGTON — Congressional language aimed at accelerating work on a future NASA space telescope has the side effect of forcing the agency to disband a team it created to guide the mission’s early development. NASA created two committees last year to support early development of the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a large space telescope recommended by … Read more
The world’s oldest crystals show evidence of exposure to both fresh and salt water during their formation, a new study reports. This indicates that the very early Earth had both oceans and land on which rainwater could collect. Although it is hell in many ways, it indicates a planet much more similar to the one … Read more
A small, seemingly inconspicuous fern that grows alone on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean was crowned the Guinness World Record holder on Friday for having the largest genome of any organism on Earth. The New Caledonian fern, Tmesipteris oblanceolatahas more than 50 times more DNA in the cell nucleus than humans. If the … Read more
A new catalog of 126 extrasolar worlds contains a plethora of newly discovered planets – some extreme and exotic in nature, but others could potentially support life as we know it. The mix of planets in the catalog is further evidence of the vast and wild variety of worlds beyond our cosmic backyard; it even … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! The artist’s conception of 126 planets in the latest TESS-Keck Survey catalog is based on data such as the planet’s radius, mass, density and temperature. Question marks represent planets that require more data for full characterization. Credit: WM Keck Observatory/Adam … Read more
Staff members give the media a tour of the newly built 3,200 megapixel LSST camera, the largest camera ever built, at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, on Thursday, April 11, 2024. After twenty years of work, the device will soon be packed up and shipped to a mountaintop in Chile to … Read more
Sign up for IndyEat’s free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbooks Receive our free newsletter about food and drinks A line of pizza and pasta dishes specifically aimed at the use of slimming drugs such as Wegovy or Ozempic will be launched. Nestlé will launch the new line of frozen pizzas and protein-enriched … Read more