The Hope of the Paris Climate Agreement
On April 22, 175 parties signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in a ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in New York. That the signing took place less than five and a half months after the agreement was reached in the French capital in December is a sign of spectacularly swift progress in view of the usual pace of such international accords. But to become legally binding, within a year at least 55 countries must ratify the agreement, and ..>> view originalHumans Paid for Bigger Brains With Gas-Guzzling Bodies
Evolution works on a strict energy budget. Each adaptation burns through a certain number of calories, and each individual can only acquire so many calories in the course of a day. You can’t have flapping wings and a huge body and venom and fast legs and a big brain. If you want to expand some departments, you need to make cuts in others. That’s why, for example, animals that reproduce faster tend to die earlier. They divert energy towards making new bodies, and away from maintaining their own...>> view originalReported Breakthrough in Growing Embryos in Vitro Could Raise Ethical Issues for Research
Photo taken in 2008 shows a scientific researcher handling frozen embryonic stem cells in a laboratory, at the Univesity of Sao Paulo's human genome research center. Scientists reported on May 4, 2016 they had grown human embryos in the lab for nearly ...>> view originalIBM invites users to test its quantum computer
IBM on Wednesday opened its quantum computer processor to anyone who wants to try what is expected to be a new kind of computing with enormously improved power and speed. The cloud-based computing system will allow users to explore the ...>> view originalLeopards Are A Vulnerable Species, Study Finds
1 Share Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments A new study suggests that leopards have lost an estimated 75% of their historical range to date. In 1750, leopards roamed more than 13.5 million square miles in Africa, Asia and parts of the Middle East. That has shrunk considerably to just 3.3 million square miles today, says the study, as reported in The New York Times. This research, undertaken by a team of 14 scientists from 15 universities and organizations focused on wild cats and wildlif..>> view originalGovernments should study worst-case global warming scenarios, former UN official says
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A United Nations panel of scientists seeking ways for nations to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius should not dissuade governments from concentrating on bleaker scenarios of higher temperatures as well, its former chief said on Wednesday.Nations should be considering the potential impact of temperature rises of much as 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Fahrenheit), said Robert Watson, former head of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chan..>> view original
Thursday, May 5, 2016
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