Are autonomous and/or electric vehicles the answer?
So, I spotted this Nov. 14, 2019 “StreetsBlog USA” headline “Prominent Democratic presidential candidates have all put forward plans for clean energy, limiting drilling and … Read more
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Pulsed Yamanaka Factors Set Back Epigenic Age
(without going all the way back to the (or causing cancer) In a column last month, I posed the question whether the methylation clocks of … Read more
Pinning down consciousness could improve mental health, brain disorder treatments
Consciousness – the awareness we have of our self and surroundings – is often referred to as ‘the hard problem’. It’s not easy to scientifically … Read more
U.S. transportation energy consumption: How high, low will it go?
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) way back on Jan. 24, 2019 released its Annual Energy Outlook 2019 with projections to 2050 (AEO2019). From a … Read more
Using both marijuana and alcohol during early pregnancy may increase the likelihood of disrupting fetal development
New preclinical research reported in animal models shows that exposure to compounds found in marijuana called cannabinoids (CBs), which includes cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), … Read more
Is there life on super-Earths? The answer could lie in their cores
Rocky planets larger than our own, so-called super-Earths, are surprisingly abundant in our Galaxy, and stand as the most likely planets to be habitable. Getting … Read more
Secreted Shiptracks
Drifting beside western coasts of uncovered continents, metallic leviathans stretch their sunken limbs. Hinged jaws spitting sulphurous seeds that linger beneath the ether; clouds condensing … Read more
Changing climate is narrowing options for migrating birds
Across an entire desert or ocean, migratory birds make some of the most extreme journeys found in nature, but there are still huge gaps in … Read more
American drivers once averaged over 14K driving miles each: What it means
It’s incredible! We 221.71 million American motorists in 2016, in our roughly 268.8 million motor vehicles, each drove an average 14,317.7 miles. Meanwhile, in narrowing … Read more
Nanovehicles that mimic nature could deliver treatments of the future
Tiny vehicles up to 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair that are cloaked in biological camouflage could provide new ways of … Read more
‘We’ve found thousands of potentially habitable planets – now we need to study them in detail’
by Jonathan O’Callaghan From the first discoveries of planets beyond our solar system in the 1990s, we now know of thousands of alien worlds, some … Read more
