The Climate-Driven Diaspora Is Here
Many places are becoming increasingly unlivable. And around one-quarter of humanity is already dealing with drought and associated food insecurity. By 2070, one-fifth of the planet could become too hot...
Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test its implant for a new use: allowing a person to control a robotic...
COP29 Agreement Says Someone Should Pay to Help Developing Countries, But Not Who
At around 3 am on Sunday morning, in a drained plenary, the gavel slammed to bring COP29 to a close. Coming at the end of a convulsive final day in...
Five common misconceptions about women and entrepreneurship
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Women entrepreneurs are essential for the Canadian economy, a fact recognized by the government's Women Entrepreneurship Strategy. This strategy was launched in 2018 and has seen...
Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK
The storms disrupted transport in Ireland, Britain and France. Ireland, Britain and France faced travel chaos on Saturday and one person died as a winter storm battered northwest Europe with...
New tools filter noise from evolution data
Credit: University of Tennessee at Knoxville While rates of evolution have appeared to accelerate over short time periods, new analysis suggests that statistical noise is affecting the data patterns. A...
Mathematicians Just Debunked the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’
Their result shows the importance of not taking anything for granted, said Noga Alon, a mathematician at Princeton. “We have to be suspicious, even about things that intuitively look very...
How to Create a Future of Cheap Energy for All
When asked why they chose Tado, he said that customers’ main reason was, “I want to save money. The second reason is, I want to make the planet a better...
How Trump Could Actually Increase Fossil Fuel Production
This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.During his campaign, president-elect Donald Trump had a pointed tagline for his energy policy: “Drill, baby, drill.”That...
Why Is It So Tricky to Show the Sun, Earth, and Moon in a Diagram?
Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis...