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In 2019, soot accounted for 35% of the black carbon that human activity put into the air, up from 16% in 1750, according to a global emissions inventory published Sept. 8 in Nature Geoscience. Black…
Sunlight-driven chemistry in the top few meters of exposed Antarctic ice appears to change the greenhouse gases trapped inside it, Giyoon Lee and Jinho Ahn of Seoul National University and colleagues…
Six computer models that estimate a person's age from proteins in the blood were run over blood samples from the same 42-patient drug trial, and all six scored the treated patients younger. Insilico…
Fujitsu Builds a Quantum Computer Prototype Around Flaws in Diamond Fujitsu said on Sept. 8 that it has built and run a working prototype of a quantum computer that stores information in single tin…
Closing a stretch of seabed off Oregon to trawlers to make room for floating wind farms would change the groundfish catch very little, and would not hand the fishery much of a bonus either, according…
The World Meteorological Organization published its annual Air Quality and Climate Bulletin on Sept. 7, reporting that smoke from wildfires and ground-level ozone formed during heatwaves are pushing…
Mice whose layer 6b neurons had been switched off slept and woke for the same total number of hours as normal mice, but the electrical rhythms running through their brains were slower and weaker,…
Warm water pushes the ricefield eel from female to male through a single temperature-sensitive protein in the ovary, researchers report in eLife. The paper, published on September 7 by Zhi Yang,…
Replacing beef and lamb with poultry across 181 countries would cut the world's food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 37% over the rest of this century and still leave the 1.5 °C climate target…
The eastern Ross Sea off Antarctica went through an extreme marine heatwave in the southern summer of 2022–23 and then grew its largest plankton bloom since satellite measurements of ocean color…
Four astronomers have reanalyzed JWST measurements of starlight filtered through the atmospheres of 10 planets orbiting other stars, using one consistent method for all of them. They report that the…
Adobe published an emergency hotfix on Sept. 7 for a flaw in Magento and Adobe Commerce that attackers had been using to break into live online stores since Sept. 4. Every version of the store…