Information Is Beautiful have crunched the numbers and, through their usual fantastic illustrative form, have formulated the details on how the USA can get to Net Zero emissions by 2050.
John Lang of the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit published a detailed & slick graphic that summarises the latest IPCC Climate Change report and describes how we can stop climate Change.
Scientists from Michigan State University have discovered that locusts can not only smell cancer cells, but changes in their brain activity that can be measured also change depending on the type of cancer cell that they smell. Harnessing this diagnostic capability could allow large scale early stage cancer detection.
Scientists at the University of Texas stored an encrypted version of The Wizard of Oz in 256 bits of data encoded within polymers of ink. The ink was used to write a letter, which can later be decoded using depolymerization and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry equipment.
Researchers at ETH Zurich have created the first map of connection within the human immune system. The map shows how immune cells across the body link up and communicate to deal with threats.
Researchers at Princeton have successfully simulated the freezing of water at the quantum level using neural networks to model quantum-mechanical interatomic forces.
John Wiseman created a map showing areas around the world where GPS jamming is in place. The data is based on aircraft reports of their navigation system accuracy.
The Nuclear Regulator Commission is set to approve NuScale modular nuclear reactor for use. The NuScale reactor is small enough to be manufactured and shipped to its site of use, uses external water supplies for cooling and features an operator free shut down procedure using gravity if a problem occurs.
Popsci posted an interesting piece about why you shouldn't throw away those little silica gel packs because they are harmful to the environment. The article lists some ways you can reuse them to keep things like electronics and documents free of moisture.
