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Industry News
- The Normals | Episode 1How do we know what's normal in a person? In the early 1950s, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) set out to do something unprecedented. It wanted to start studying normal humans on a grand scale. It had pretty much everything in place: It had the building, it had recruited all of these amazing researchers—it […]
- Resolving the dispute over the speed of the expanding universe, and seeking new drug targets for cognitive dysfunctionFirst up on the podcast, a new path to calculating the Hubble constant. This value for the universe’s speed of expansion is typically determined in one of two ways, one favored by cosmologists, the other by astronomers. But the resulting values from these methods are consistently different. Staff Writer Daniel Clery joins host Sarah Crespi […]
- Resurrection plants, Project Hail Mary, and the trouble with sycophantic AIFirst up on the podcast, Deputy News Editor Martin Enserink talks about so-called resurrection plants. These specialized plants can survive up to 95% water loss, whereas most plants struggle when their water levels dip below 60%. We also hear from Jill Farrant, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of Cape Town, […]
Expert Insights
- A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into ViewScientists have uncovered a "blind spot" in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. Across much of the world, sea levels are higher than previously assumed and land is sinking faster.Read more on E360 →
- A Shift to EVs Would Lower the Price of Gasoline, Study FindsA broad shift to electric vehicles would benefit drivers of gas-powered cars by lowering the price of fuel. That is the finding of a new study, which comes as the war in Iran rattles energy markets, driving up the cost of oil.Read more on E360 →
- Google to Use Natural Gas to Power Massive Data Center in TexasA planned gas-fired power plant at a Google data center in Texas would generate up to 4.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, more than the city of San Francisco.Read more on E360 →
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