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As the rate of humanity’s data creation increases exponentially with the rise of AI, scientists have been interested in DNA as a way to store digital information. After all, DNA is nature’s way of storing data. It encodes genetic information…

Fossil fuels currently power the shipping industry Sven Hansche/Shutterstock Switching from burning fossil fuels to burning ammonia is a promising way for the shipping industry to cut its carbon dioxide emissions. But if it isn’t careful, this swap could also…

January 16, 2025 5 min read How Will Fire Investigators Trace the Source of the L.A. Wildfires? Wildfires like the Los Angeles blazes destroy so much, but they often spare some evidence of the cause of their ignition By Stephanie…

We urgently need new ways to understand and treat depression FotografiaBasica/Getty Images Chemically ImbalancedJoanna Moncrieff (Flint Books) Joanna Moncrieff was a “precocious 14-year-old” when she experienced “a period of what might have been called depression”. She didn’t seek treatment, however. “I…

January 16, 2025 3 min read ‘Powerful Forces’ Threaten Climate Action, Biden Warns In his farewell address, President Biden warned that a powerful “oligarchy” could undo four years of progress on climate policy By Scott Waldman & E&E News President…

At 06:59 Central European time time on January 8, the BepiColombo spacecraft successfully performed its sixth flyby of Mercury, the innermost planet in the solar system. This was a “gravity assist maneuver,” a move that used Mercury’s gravitational pull to…

Artist’s impression of Carinodens, a mosasaur whose remains scientists suspect might have been manipulated and then labelled as a new species Henry Sharpe Remnants of a bizarre “shark-toothed” aquatic predator that lived alongside dinosaurs were probably forged, according to new…

A humanoid robot waltzes with help from an AI trained on human motion capture recordings Xuxin Cheng and Mazeyu Ji An AI that helps humanoid robots mirror a person’s movement could allow robots to walk, dance and fight in more…

January 16, 2025 5 min read The Supreme Court’s Case on Trans Health Shows Why Patients Should Make the Decisions Supreme Court arguments over trans health care makes plain how badly we need personalized health care in all of medicine…

AirNow’s fire map includes data from PurpleAir sensors (that’s what the small circles represent), and Watch Duty, a nonprofit app for tracking fires, also displays PurpleAir data. But likely due to different calculations and processing delays, the air quality index…