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For many companies, those indirect emissions dwarf all the rest. Some companies and business groups contend that it is unfair to hold them responsible for pollution that they may not directly control. A graphics card maker, for example, may say it cannot control the coal plants that power its suppliers’ factories in distant countries; an …
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SUBSCRIBE: Apple | Spotify Listen to Episode 1 of this 3-part Science, Quickly fascination here. Transcript Allison Parshall: As a kid, I was something of a composer. Please brace yourself for Mozart-level brilliance. [CLIP: Parshall family home video of toddler Allison playing a tiny keyboard and singing, mostly gibberish] Parshall: As you can hear, I was a lyrical …
Music-Making Artificial Intelligence is Getting Scary Good Read More »
In the autumn of 1802, some 25 years before his death, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a letter to his brothers. The famous composer, distraught about his encroaching loss of hearing, implored them to seek out his physician after his death and “beg him in my name to describe my malady.” More than two centuries on, …
Beethoven’s Cause of Death Revealed from Locks of Hair Read More »
Scientists who study happiness know that being kind to others can improve well-being. Acts as simple as buying a cup of coffee for someone can boost a person’s mood, for example. Everyday life affords many opportunities for such actions, yet people do not always take advantage of them. In studies published online in the Journal …
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Argentinian-born mathematician Luis Caffarelli has won the 2023 Abel Prize — one of the most coveted awards in mathematics — for his work on equations that are important for describing physical phenomena, such as how ice melts and fluids flow. He is the first person born in South America to win the award. Caffarelli’s results …
Mathematician Wins Abel Prize for ‘Smooth’ Physics Read More »
The United Nations water conference started this week. Co-hosted by the Netherlands and Tajikistan, the three-day event will take place at UN headquarters in New York and will be the first such event in nearly half a century. During that time, a rising number of people around the world have gained access to safe water …
The World Faces a Water Crisis and 4 Powerful Charts Show How Read More »
Mathematics is the language that lets us describe the universe. Galileo Galilei was already convinced of that in the 16th century. But even everyday phenomena such as the melting of an ice cube in a glass of water can lead to equations that are so complex that they overwhelm those with high levels of mathematical …
CLIMATEWIRE | The president of one of the world’s largest insurance brokers warned Wednesday that climate change is destabilizing the insurance industry, driving up prices and pushing insurers out of high-risk markets. Aon PLC President Eric Andersen told a Senate committee that climate change is injecting uncertainty into an industry built on risk prediction and …
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After several years of agreements and plans to limit global warming, we are still way off track. This is one of the basic conclusions of the recent report put out by the world’s most authoritative body on climate science: the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report, formally called the Synthesis Report …
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