West Greenland is home to tens of thousands of blue lakes that provide residents with drinking water and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. Yet after two months of record heat and precipitation in fall 2022, an estimated 7,500 lakes turned brown, began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality, according to a new study. West Greenland…

Molecules haven’t been used in quantum computing, even though they have the potential to make the ultra-high-speed experimental technology even faster. Their rich internal structures were seen as too complicated, too delicate, too unpredictable to manage, so smaller particles have been used. Molecules haven’t been used in quantum computing, even though they have the potential to…

In the early years of the 21st century, investors had good reason to hope that a single, globally-accepted accounting framework would soon emerge to unite the world’s financial markets. It seemed inevitable that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would abandon its devotion to the U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and adopt the Esperanto-like…

When NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) new Earth satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) launches in coming months, it will capture images of Earth’s surface so detailed they will show how much small plots of land and ice are moving, down to fractions of an inch. When NASA and the Indian Space Research…

According to a study published in Nature Food, China’s current trajectory is misaligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Researchers assessed potential pathways for achieving the SDGs in China by transforming its food system, focusing on dietary changes, climate change mitigation, ecological conservation, and socio-economic development. According to a study published in Nature Food,…

As males age, their reproductive success typically declines. A study on fruit flies, led by University of Oxford researchers, has found that while old males do produce fewer offspring than young males, this is not because they have fewer sperm, but it is due to seminal fluid limitation. This study highlights the importance of the…