2025-01-22

Can our climate be saved by vacuuming carbon out of the skies

Imagine: A switch is flicked and, in a heartbeat, every process spewing deadly pollution into the heavens is replaced with something clean and sustainable. Sadly, even then, the Earth would still tip [...]

2025-01-22

Trump’s Plan to Leave the WHO Is a Health Disaster

The exit will cut a huge chunk from the World Health Organization’s budget, but the short-term financial gain for the US could come at the cost of disease outbreaks flaring up across the world. [...]

2025-01-22

Berkeley SkyDeck teams with Mayfield to support AI-focused student entrepreneurs

Berkeley SkyDeck, the global hub for entrepreneurship and accelerator, along with UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), announced a partnership with Mayfield. The aims [...]

2025-01-22

This Company Wants to Build a Space Station That Has Artificial Gravity

Founded by crypto guru Jed McCaleb, Vast Space will run two missions to the International Space Station, and aims to launch its first space station, Haven-1, by the end of 2025. [...]

2025-01-22

The US Has Bird Flu Vaccines. Here’s Why You Can’t Get One

H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the country’s first human death due to bird flu, vaccination isn’t yet recommende [...]

2025-01-22

Fast radio burst in long-dead galaxy puzzles astronomers

Result "challenges existing theories that tie FRB origins to phenomena in star-forming galaxies." [...]

2025-01-22

Google releases free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, pressuring OpenAI’s premium strategy

Google challenges OpenAI with free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, offering million-token processing, native code execution, and breakthrough performance in math and science benchmarks. [...]

2025-01-22

Genomics pioneer steps closer to dementia treatment breakthrough

An Icelandic scaleup has sparked hopes of a breakthrough in dementia treatment after raising €26.5mn for groundbreaking research. Arctic Therapeutics (ATx) attracted the investment after pioneering [...]

2025-01-21

How Invasive Plants Are Fueling California’s Wildfire Crisis

Non-native grasses and eucalyptus trees brought to California centuries ago for agriculture and landscaping have reshaped the state’s fire dynamics. [...]