Cop29: world leaders must be held to account on climate with scientific evidence: The latest scientific assessment by an international team of climate scientists that I lead shows how human activity is warming the world more rapidly than ever before, and we are now perilously close to the Paris agreement’s 1.5°C guardrail. This evidence underscores …
Ear seeds: what are they and why have they been controversially linked to ME without scientific evidence?: Research into CFS has been chronically underfunded in the US and UK Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images When Giselle Boxer recently pitched her brand of a needle-free form of acupuncture known as “ear seeds” to the investors …
TB vaccine: WHO expert explains why it’s taken 100 years for a scientific breakthrough, and why it’s such a big deal: The BCG vaccine for TB has been used for 100 years. It is largely effective for children under five, but less so in older people and can’t be used on patients who have certain …
Horizon Europe: how the UK’s delay in rejoining EU funding scheme is damaging scientific research: Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock Horizon Europe is the largest and richest funding programme for scientific research in the world. Run by the European Union (EU), it has a budget of €95.5 billion (£83 billion) spread over seven years – from 2021 …
How upstream contributions power scientific research: How upstream contributions power scientific research cdelia Fri, 02/03/2023 – 03:00 Horizon Europe emphasizes open science and open source technology. The program evolved from Horizon 2020, which provided financial support for research projects that promoted industrial competitiveness, advanced scientific excellence, or solved social challenges through the process of “open …
Why I’m righting the wrongs of my early research and sharing my scientific data with local communities : Dr Sarah Mothulatshipi and Topo Mpho Çhengeta in Gweta, Botswana exchanging knowledge with the local community about long term environmental change and stone age archaeology in the area. Sallie Burrough, Author provided “You know what’s wrong with scientific power? …
Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor – The Conversation Weekly podcast transcript: Research into psychedelics and their medical uses is making a comeback. 24K-Production via Shutterstock This is a transcript of The Conversation Weekly podcast episode: Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor, published on September 29, 2022. NOTE: Transcripts …
How a quest for mathematical truth and complex models can lead to useless scientific predictions – new research: The mathematical concept of a fractal is a never-ending pattern. G. DAWSON/Flickr, CC BY-SA A dominant view in science is that there is a mathematical truth structuring the universe. It is assumed that the scientist’s job is …
A new way to name bacteria: 300-year-old system revised thanks to scientific advances: Prokaryotes are single-celled organisms without nuclei and are commonly known as bacteria. Ichigomaru/Shutterstock Nearly 300 years ago the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus secured his place in scientific history when he created what’s known as the binomial system. The year was 1737 and, …
Should we really believe scientific facts will last forever when history is full of revolutions in thinking?: Phrenology has long since been overturned, but it was once very popular among scientists. Holly Anne Cromer/Shutterstock Astronomers once believed the Sun revolved around the Earth. In the 19th century, scientists thought the shape of a person’s skull …
First synthetic embryos: the scientific breakthrough raises serious ethical questions: synthetic mouse Weizmann Institute of Sciences Children, even some who are too young for school, know you can’t make a baby without sperm and an egg. But a team of researchers in Israel have called into question the basics of what we teach children about …
Mangroves are disappearing – we read 200 scientific papers to find out why: Remains of deforested mangroves in Malaysia. NOOR RADYA BINTI MD RADZI / shutterstock Mangrove forests look much like the coastal cousins of inland forests, but you cannot miss their tangled prop roots that help them thrive in harsh coastal environments where the …
How the scientific equivalent of impressionist paintings can make you feel data: Water Lilies by Claude Monet (1919). Everett Collection/Shutterstock A group of artists shook the world in the 1860s by painting what they saw, thought and felt. They became known as the impressionists and they weren’t interested in recreating perfect visual appearances like hundreds …
Using animals for scientific research is still indispensable for society as we know it: Shutterstock Kenya’s national airline – Kenya Airways – made headlines when it announced it would stop transporting monkeys for animal research. This followed an accidental highway crash in Pennsylvania, in the US, which involved a truck transporting monkeys that had been …
‘We suppressed our scientific imagination’: four experts examine the big successes and failures of the COVID response so far: The World Health Organization declared COVID a pandemic on March 11 2020. In the two years since, countries have diverged on their containment strategies, introducing many different ways of mitigating the virus, to varying effect. Here, …
Why it’s still a scientific mystery how some can live past 100 – and how to crack it: Centenarian buddies in Sardinia. Sabino Parente/Shutterstock A 35-year-old man only has a 1.5% chance of dying in the next ten years. But the same man at 75 has a 45% chance of dying before he reaches 85. …
South Africa in the news: India Launches The 41st Scientific Expedition To Antarctica: India has successfully launched the 41st Scientific Expedition to Antarctica with the arrival of the first batch of its contingent at the southern white continent.: “South Africa” – BingNews South Africa’s last apartheid president F. W. de Klerk dies: F.W. de Klerk, who …
Herbal skin treatments in Uganda get an important scientific boost: Herbal remedies are commonplace in Uganda; testing these scientifically is a good way to ensure they're safe and effective. Ava Peattie/Shutterstock Herbal medicine is used all over the world, and Uganda is no exception. Figures suggest that up to 79% of the East African nation’s …