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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
- 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 →
- U.S. Biofuels Target Could Fuel Destruction of Tropical RainforestThe U.S. doesn’t produce enough vegetable oil to meet a new biofuels mandate, so suppliers will have to ramp up imports of vegetable oil, putting pressure on tropical forests overseas.Read more on E360 →
- Why Protecting Flowering Plants Is Crucial to Our FutureIn his latest book, biologist David George Haskell describes flowering plants as “world creators.” In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains how they spurred the evolution of new ecosystems and what flowering plants can teach us about survival on a warming planet.Read more on E360 →
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