Algae fills the Paktajokka River in northern Sweden. Photosynthesis in the river means that its daytime and night-time carbon emissions differ substantially. Credit: Gerard Rocher-Ros Biogeochemistry 21 April 2021 Rivers give off stealth carbon at night Emissions made under cover of darkness account for much of the carbon flux from flowing waters. Share on Twitter
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Billy Thalheimer (CEO) and Michael Klinker (CTO) of REGENT REGENT A Boston start-up called REGENT wants to make flying ferries the best way to travel between coastal cities. The start-up is developing an “electric seaglider” that can motor out of a harbor on a hydrofoil, take off at a low speed using the water as
Ukrainian entrepreneur Max Polyakov, with his Silicon Valley-based investment vehicle Noosphere Ventures Partners, is on a mission to build out a vertically integrated space business. A year after Noosphere founded satellite imagery venture Earth Observation Data Analytics (EOSDA) in 2016, Polyakov got into the launch business by snapping up Firefly Aerospace out of bankruptcy. The
China’s space port of Wenchang will build a $3-billion (roughly Rs. 22,490 crores) supercomputing centre by year-end to analyse data obtained from space, according to state media. With a planned investment of CNY 20 billion (roughly Rs. 23,100 crores), the supercomputing centre will provide big data services for industries including the aerospace and marine sectors
So much is now well known about the similarities we have with other primates, it is not difficult to forget that until relatively currently, we were still establishing precisely where we humans came to an end and apes began. Through the 20th century, the chimpanzee’s study specifically was a way to gain knowledge about ourselves:
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced it will work with 11 remote and island communities around the United States and provide federal assistance to bolster their energy infrastructure, reduce the risk of outages, and improve their future energy and economic outlook. Due to their geographic isolation, remote coastal and island
290 million kilometers away, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has taken the first step towards a new type of space exploration. Hovering 3 meters above the Martian surface before rotating 90 degrees and safely landing, this was the first powered flight on another planet. In this video we explore the challenges of this achievement and ask what
In this article NFLX (L-R) Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos attend the “Marseille” Netflix TV Serie World Premiere At Palais Du Pharo In Marseille, on May 4, 2016 in Marseille, France. Stephane Cardinale | Corbis | Getty Images Netflix is set to report earnings for the first quarter of 2021 after the bell on Tuesday.
VICTORIA, British Columbia — The Canadian government will fund upgrades to aging ground-based infrastructure for receiving satellite data as well as provide seed money to begin planning for the country’s next generation of Earth observation satellites. The commitments were in the 2021 federal government budget tabled in the House of Commons on April 19 by
Corporate sustainability reporting starts with a laudable goal: that measurement and reporting of a company’s social and environmental footprint would trigger the following positive chain reaction: Individual companies’ social and environmental performance would improve (because what gets measured gets managed). A link tying companies with better sustainability records to better equity returns would emerge. Investors
As Arnold Kriegstein and his team watched, cancer cells sprinted across the culture dish, sometimes travelling 30 times their own length in the hour before they divided. Typically, the only cells that move this fast are certain embryonic stem cells, during fetal brain development. But the cancer cells were from a glioblastoma, a type of
Huaneng Power Plant. Huai ‘an City, Jiangsu Province, China, September 13, 2020. Costfoto | Barcroft Media via Getty Images LONDON — Energy-related carbon emissions are on track to surge by nearly 5% this year, according to the International Energy Agency, reversing most of last year’s decline caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In the IEA’s Global
Amazon Salon Source: Amazon LONDON — Amazon announced Tuesday that it is planning to open its first-ever hair salon in East London as the e-commerce giant continues to explore new lines of business and promote some of the items it sells on its platform. The Amazon Salon, described in a blog post, will be spread
WASHINGTON — The successful flight of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars paves the way for its use on future missions, agency officials said, but exactly when and how remain to be determined. At a press conference April 19, project officials said Ingenuity’s first flight, also the first powered flight by an aircraft on another world,
Demand and supply pressures will offset each other in the oil market, and it’s reasonable to expect prices to be in the $60 to $75 range in one year’s time as countries recover from the coronavirus crisis, said oil expert Dan Yergin. “If we really do have the rest of the world recover, I think
This month, Ghana fishing authorities have discovered hundreds of dolphins stranded on its beaches. This is the latest incident in a number of similar beaching incidents on the African coast that have been documented for the past year. Fortunately, there were a handful of survivors. About 38 of those washed ashore were still alive and
Volkswagen has now unveiled its third ID production electric vehicle based on its MEB platform. After the ID.3 and ID.4, we now get to see the ID.6: the brand’s biggest electric vehicle yet. For the VW ID.6, the German automaker is going to first focus on the Chinese market and decided to unveil the electric
We’ve been writing and talking a lot about Tesla’s sales goals and Tesla sales forecasts from people like Troy Teslike and me. We’ve also been covering in great depth the battery supply chain that is needed to make high-volume Tesla vehicle sales possible. In a recent conversation, it came to mind to highlight why Elon
This Nature Careers webinar is now available to view as video-on-demand. In the 60-minute session, three speakers share their advice, approaches and opinions on peer review, before spending some time answering questions from Nature’s readers. First, we hear from Mathew Stiller-Reeve, a scientific consultant based in Norway. He outlines his structured approach to peer review.
In this article PYPL The PayPal application on an Apple iPhone. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images BOAO, China — PayPal plans to set up a local wallet in China focused on cross-border payments. In January, the U.S. fintech company became the first foreign firm with 100% ownership of a payments platform in China.
One of the desired capabilities for the tactical space layer is positioning, navigation and timing. WASHINGTON — U.S. Army leaders have signed off on plans to explore the use of satellites in low Earth orbit to give soldiers dedicated surveillance, navigation and imaging capabilities. The Army’s effort is called “tactical space layer” and is led
Air pollution has grave consequences — the World Health Organization estimates it kills 7 million people a year. Indeed, recent research suggests closer to 9 million people died from exposure to air pollution caused by burning fossil fuel each year from 2012 to 2018. The economic impacts on health and productivity from exposure to air
NASA successfully flew the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars on Monday, according to data and images sent back to Earth. “Altimeter data confirms that Ingenuity has performed its first flight – the first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet,” announced an engineer in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the control room cheered. A short
They’re one of the most destroying environmental forces on Earth. They’ve taken over pretty much everywhere humans have set foot on the earth. Yet you might not be aware of their existence. We’re talking about alien species. Not tiny green extraterrestrials, but prying plants and animals not indigenous to an ecosystem and which turns into
Our latest EV spotlight shines on Phoenix Motorcars. The Ontario, California-based automaker provides fleet mobility solutions to a quickly growing sector for electrification – light- and medium-duty commercial vehicles. This lineup currently includes trucks, shuttles, and school buses, but with recent partnerships with companies in solar and autonomous technology, Phoenix Motorcars is one to watch.
Originally published at Future Trends. Welcome to another issue of our new India x Cleantech series! On a monthly basis, we are pulling news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article about the country. Cleantech Investments M&A Activity Picks Up In India’s Rooftop Solar Market Amplus Energy, a rooftop
There’s basically a hole in the universe — a region where there’s much less matter than there should be. And we don’t know why it’s there. Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister ———- Dooblydoo thanks to the following Patreon supporters — we couldn’t make SciShow without them! Shout outs go to Justin Ove, Chris Peters, John Szymakowski,
In the Article, we studied 71 landfall events. For each event, we analysed the data of hurricane intensities and locations corresponding to the first four synoptic times past landfall (0000 utc, 0600 utc, 1200 utc and 1800 utc). From the intensities, we computed the decay timescale, and from the locations, we computed the translation speed, coastline-perpendicular
Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix, attends a meeting with France’s President Emmanuel Macron during the “Choose France” summit, at the Chateau de Versailles, outside Paris, France, January 20, 2020. Benoit Tessier | Pool | Reuters The purported plot of the streaming wars goes as follows: Sick of losing customers and relative market value
TAMPA, Fla. — Amazon has ordered nine Atlas 5 rockets from United Launch Alliance to help place its 3,236-strong Project Kuiper broadband constellation. The U.S. internet retailing giant declined to disclose a time frame for its deal with ULA, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin known more for its government missions than commercial
Lebanon’s Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (or Rai) greets supporters on February 27, 2021 at the Maronite Patriarchate in the mountain village of Bkerki, northeast of Beirut, Lebanon on February 27, 2021. Houssam Shbaro | Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Lebanon’s most senior Christian cleric, Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi, called for a meeting with Iranian-backed
Scientists at Ames Laboratory’s Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP) have discovered a chemical method that turns recycled plastics into biodegradable, use chemicals that can be used as surfactants and detergents in a variety of applications. Plastics may have more sustainable and cost-effective lifecycles as a result of this process. (Photo : Magda Ehlers)
Audi has just shown the future of their electric sedans with the A6 e-tron concept, which debuted at the Shanghai auto show today. The sedan is based on a new platform that Audi is calling “Premium Platform Electric” or “PPE” for short, developed in collaboration with Porsche. This platform will enable Audi to offer several
What kind of job do you recommend to someone who wants to get rich? Probably lawyer, banker, investor, software engineer, journalist, or doctor, right? Wait, one of those doesn’t belong. Indeed — you don’t go into media to become a multimillionaire, or even a millionaire, or even a thousandaire. You go into media out of
Los Alamos in New Mexico, a major nuclear-weapons site during the Second World War.Credit: John Dambik/Alamy Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States Alex Wellerstein Univ. Chicago Press (2021) In March 1950, an official from the Atomic Energy Commission — then the guardian of US nuclear secrets — oversaw the burning
Fifty and twenty pounds bank notes and a bitcoin logo are seen in this photo illustration. Omar Marques | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images LONDON — Britain is the latest country to join a global race toward central bank digital currencies. “We’re launching a new taskforce between the Treasury and the Bank of
NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and the agency has selected SpaceX to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the next two American astronauts to the lunar surface. The agency’s powerful Space Launch System rocket will
A nurse in Italy prepares a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.Credit: Pasquale Senatore/Pacific Press/Shutterstock It has been a difficult week for two COVID-19 vaccines. On 13 April, US regulators urged health-care providers to temporarily stop using a vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) of New Brunswick, New Jersey, because of 6 suspected cases of
In this article CNY= BOAO, China — China is trying to make it possible for foreign athletes and visitors to use its digital currency during the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022, a top central bank official said on Sunday. It could be the first test for China’s digital currency with international users. Li Bo, deputy
WASHINGTON — Boeing said April 17 that the next test flight of its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle won’t take place until at least August, confirming a lengthy delay widely expected because of the schedule of other launches and International Space Station missions. In a statement, Boeing said that the company and NASA are projecting
While just the sight of a spider can get many of us jumping out of our skin, have you ever wondered what a spider’s web sounds like? Well, a new study shows that it could send a shiver down your spine with its characteristic reverberating tune. Markus Buehler, an engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute
Qualities of the family of cats were apparently next to godliness. The ancient Egyptians are well known for their love of all things feline. There’s no scarcity of artifacts that are cat-themed – from bigger-than-life statues to complex jewelry – that have got through the millennia since the pharaohs led the Nile. (Photo : Getty
Leaks are just as prevalent in the automotive world as in the drones sector. And, the day before Shanghai’s big Auto Show, a DJI-related autonomous electric vehicle leak has occurred. We reported recently that DJI appears to have a new division related to autonomous driving. We also reported this actually makes a lot of sense,
Originally published on WRI’s Resource Institute Blog.By Giulia Christianson, Ariel Pinchot, and Yili Wu The movement to achieve net-zero global greenhouse gas emissions, is gaining traction and coherence, especially in the world of finance. In late March, BlackRock and Vanguard — the two largest asset managers on the planet — joined a growing coalition of investors in the Net Zero
Researchers have made some unexpected readings of mysterious particles called muons, which may make us reexamine the Standard Model in physics. Hosted by: Stefan Chin April Pin of the Month: https://store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/scishow-pin-of-the-month-mini-neptunes-april SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It’s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ———- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow
US President Joe Biden is hosting a virtual climate summit around Earth Day next week.Credit: Amr Alfiky/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty The United States has a new president, and is rolling out new plans for fighting climate change. Last month, President Joe Biden revealed a mammoth infrastructure proposal that would invest heavily in clean-energy
A Tesla logo on a Model S is photographed inside of a Tesla dealership in New York. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Two men died in a Tesla crash in Spring, Texas on Saturday night, and apparently nobody was behind the wheel, according to local police interviewed by reporter Deven Clarke at NBC affiliate KPRC 2.
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