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Dementia in Prison Is Turning into an Epidemic: The U.S. Penal System Is Badly Unprepared
Terrell Carter remembers one prisoner in particular. They had both been seeking commutations of their life sentence so they could…
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How the Montreal Protocol Helped Save Earth from a Climate Time Bomb
The Montreal Protocol didn’t just preserve the ozone layer, it helped save Earth from a climate change time bomb. The…
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Decarbonising the shipping industry will cost more than $1 trillion
Powering all shipping vessels with zero-emission fuels by 2050 would slash the industry’s emissions, but it would require between $1…
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AlphaFold Developers Win $3-Million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
The researchers behind the AlphaFold artificial-intelligence (AI) system have won one of this year’s US$3-million Breakthrough prizes—the most lucrative awards…
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Too many electric cars charging at night may overload electrical grid
As electric car ownership rises, we will need new infrastructure to avoid overwhelming electricity grids – including public charging stations…
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Sparkly Image of Neptune’s Rings Comes into View from JWST
As if dainty, iridescent fairies are racing around a cosmic track, Neptune’s rings sparkle in a stunning new view captured…
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Bubble of hot electrons seen hurtling around our galaxy’s black hole
For about two hours, a bubble of extremely hot electrons whirled around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole at 30…
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The First Lady of Engineering: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 3, Episode 1
With her knack for fixing household appliances in early childhood, YY was practically born an engineer. And fortunately, she had…
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JWST’s First Exoplanet Images Forecast a Bright Future
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken its first direct images of a planet orbiting a distant star. The…
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Mosquitoes are being genetically modified so they can’t spread malaria
Gene editing mosquitoes so they die before malaria parasites can develop inside them could stop the spread of the deadly…
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