Category Science

While trees have long been seen as nature’s air conditioners for overheating cities, groundbreaking research reveals a more nuanced reality: their cooling effectiveness varies dramatically based on climate, location, and species, sometimes even contributing to nighttime warming. Published in Communications…

Servers fill a data centre in Texas Paul Moseley/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images As data centres consume even more energy to serve the intensive computing needs of artificial intelligence, they could contribute to an estimated 600,000 asthma…

Scientists have achieved what was once thought impossible: reversing heart failure and restoring cardiac function using a novel gene therapy. In a landmark study, researchers demonstrated dramatic improvements in heart function and survival rates in pigs with heart failure, offering…

Last year, the ocean surface was much hotter than usual, as seen in July 2023 Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF The ocean may have removed much less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than expected in 2023, mainly due to high ocean…

December 10, 2024 3 min read The 6 Cutest Things We Learned about Animals in 2024 From morphing beluga noggins to birds that practice singing in their sleep, science produced plenty of adorable findings this year By Andrea Thompson Close…

In a development that bridges science fiction and reality, researchers have demonstrated a way to inscribe new patterns of brain activity that enable learning – all without surgery or physical manipulation. The technique, which uses real-time brain imaging and neural…

December 10, 2024 5 min read Addiction Telemedicine Has Saved Lives. Let’s Keep It Going Pandemic relaxation of buprenorphine-prescribing restrictions must continue to keep saving lives amid a U.S. overdose epidemic By Robert Kent Buprenorphine, seen here in a pharmacy,…

Very early in the pandemic, the infamous “Proximate origins” paper was published in Nature Medicine, using nonsensical reasoning to “prove” that COVID could not have come from a lab. The Big Lie held its ground for over two years, before Jon Stewart sneered at…

In 2018, Tom Finn took his father, Nigel, to a physiotherapy appointment. Nigel was living with vascular dementia, which can present with symptoms similar to Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurological disorder characterized by motor symptoms such as tremors, stiffness, and…

An artificial intelligence framework is democratizing complex engineering simulations, enabling personal computers to solve massive mathematical problems that traditionally required supercomputer power. This innovation could revolutionize everything from automotive crash testing to cardiac care, reducing computation times from weeks to…