Science & Tech

Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become cannibals

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:27:17 +1000

One species of nematode worm turns into a kin-devouring nightmare if it grows up in a crowded environment with a poor diet

Geoscientists are using telecom 'dark fibres' to map Earth’s innards

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:00:28 +1000

The networks of fibre optic cables that criss-cross the planet could be used to better understand what’s happening inside it

Parkinson's disease progression slowed by antibody infusions

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 03:00:30 +1000

Monthly infusions with the drug prasinezumab appeared to slow the progression of motor symptoms in people with advanced Parkinson's disease

Deadly upwellings of cold water pose threat to migratory sharks

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 02:00:05 +1000

Climate change is making extreme cold upwellings more common in certain regions of the world, and these events can be catastrophic for animals such as bull sharks

POLITICO: German transport minister threatens ‘indefinite driving bans’ on weekends ‘to meet climate goals’

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:38:21 +1000

Politico: - April 12, 2024: Germany’s transport minister Volker Wissing in a letter to the parliamentary group leaders: "A reduction in traffic to help meet the climate goals would only be possible through measures that are difficult to communicate to the public, such as “comprehensive and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays,” Wissing added. ... If the planned reforms are not passed through parliament by July 15, Wissing warned, the Ministry for Digital and Transport would be obliged to submit an "immediate action program that ensures compliance with the annual emission levels of the transport sector" until 2030 — which would include a driving ban on weekends. ...

"This claim is simply wrong," Green parliamentary group leader Julia Verlinden told the German Press Agency, referring to Wissing's threat of a weekend driving ban. She added that Wissing should not aggravate people unnecessarily because there are other ways to tackle climate issues, such as a speed limit.

Also see: Germany Electric Car Sales Plummet 30% As Country Floats Idea Of Weekend Driving Ban!

EV Sales fall 30% in Germany and Minister threatens to ban cars on weekends

Germany Electric Car Sales Plummet 30% As Country Floats Idea Of Weekend Driving Ban!

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:22:19 +1000

https://notrickszone.com/2024/04/13/germany-electric-car-sales-plummet-30-as-country-floats-idea-of-weekend-driving-ban/ By P Gosselin on 13. April 2024 There’s been a drastic drop in the registration of new electric cars in Germany as sales of the “clean” electric cars have slumped nearly 30% compared to a year earlier, reports Germany’s online Blackout News here. Also: Germany’s transportation minister, Dr. Volker Wissing, threatens weekend driving ban […]

EV Sales fall 30% in Germany and Minister threatens to ban cars on weekends

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:18:46 +1000

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/04/calling-the-greens-bluff-ev-sales-fall-30-in-germany-and-minister-threatens-to-ban-cars-on-weekends/ By Jo Nova Electric cars and carbon target fantasies are hitting the wallRight when they are meant to be growing by double digits German EV car sales are down an astonishing 30% compared to a year ago. Their market share is actually shrinking. EV’s are not much good at reducing carbon dioxide over their […]

RFK Jr. wants to poach climate voters from Biden, skeptics from Trump – Courting voters who see ‘totalitarian controls’ in Biden’s climate policy

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:47:08 +1000

RFK Jr. wants to poach climate voters from Biden, skeptics from Trump By Scott Waldman Excerpts: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sees an opportunity in the nation’s bitter divide over climate politics. The independent presidential candidate is making a play for the climate-minded voters who compose much of President Joe Biden’s base, as well as the climate […]

U.S. Drilling Activity Continues to Drop Off in 2024: ‘Oil rigs now stand at 506–down by 84 compared to this time in 2024’

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:39:36 +1000

Not to worry, we can always import from the Middle East. U.S. Drilling Activity Continues to Drop Off: "Oil rigs now stand at 506–down by 84 compared to this time last year. The number of gas rigs fell by 1 this week to 109, a loss of 49 active gas rigs from this time last… […]

Jane Fonda decries inaction on climate, apologizes to the young: ‘Sorry that we’ve created this issue for you’

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:35:09 +1000

https://www.foxnews.com/media/jane-fonda-decries-inaction-climate-apologizes-young-sorry-weve-created-issue-you The actress blamed the climate issue on a ‘manifestation of racism, misogyny and patriarchy’ By Gabriel Hays Fox News Liberal actress Jane Fonda appeared at multiple high-profile events this week to promote her climate activism. The 86-year-old Fonda, who has been arrested while participating in past climate protests, tried to rev up famous faces at a Beverly […]

Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, April 13, 2024, #453

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 07:11:07 +1000

Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org "Injecting Sulfur Into The Atmosphere Could Pose Dangerous Risks", new from Science Alert. But is it just sulfur? Hundreds of precipitation tests reveal numerous other elements coming down through our breathable air column. Elements like aluminum, barium, strontium, manganese, polymer fibers, surfactants and graphene. What could go wrong? Now let's add this headline from

Media finally gets it! ‘Duke Energy is transitioning away from coal. It means power bills are becoming more expensive’

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 02:46:35 +1000

Marc Morano comment: Duke Energy spokesman calls gutting reliable coal power -- "improvements" to the grid. Yet they are virtually signaling to political mandates for Net Zero. As utilities close down reliable fossil fuel energy generation, they claim unspecified "benefits" to the "transitions." In the video, Tesla home generator batteries are touted for the inevitable blackouts coming. Ideologies, politicians, activists, and colluding corporations and utilities are monkeying around with our once reliable grid due to climate politics. Then they offer some customer 'rebates,' 'incentives', & 'subsidiy' programs that are supposed to alleviate the constantly rising energy prices. This is an insane process that needs to stop, and Duke Energy spokesmen need a remedial education on how to speak to the public and stop lying about green energy 'improvements' to the grid. At the same time, they collude and do their part to sabotage the grid.

Climate Cooking: ‘How a few billionaires (Steyer, Bloomberg & Paulson) helped push climate science to the extremes’

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 01:02:02 +1000

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/climate-cooking By Roger Pielke Jr.: Excerpt: At the center of the corruption of climate science discussed here sits a highly technical scenario of the future called Representation Concentration Pathway 8.5 or RCP8.5. Longtime readers of THB will no doubt be familiar with RCP8.5 and its consequences, but for anyone needing a quick primer, have a […]

Are panda sex lives being sabotaged by the wrong gut microbes?

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 07:46:55 +1000

Conservationists think tweaking pandas’ diets might shift their gut microbiomes in a way that could encourage them to mate

See inside an endangered California condor egg just before it hatches

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:27:48 +1000

The hatching of the 250th California condor chick at the San Diego Zoo marks a notable milestone for a species that narrowly evaded extinction

‘Peaceful’ male bonobos may actually be more aggressive than chimps

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 02:00:34 +1000

Bonobos have long been regarded as the peaceful ape, in sharp contrast with violent chimpanzees, but a study based on thousands of hours of observations suggests the real story is more nuanced

Arctic permafrost is now a net source of major greenhouse gases

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:52:20 +1000

An Arctic-wide survey has found that the permafrost region is emitting more carbon into the atmosphere than it absorbs, causing the planet to heat even further

Chatbots can persuade conspiracy theorists their view might be wrong

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:00:46 +1000

After a short conversation with an artificial intelligence, people’s belief in a conspiracy theory dropped by about 20 per cent

Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human family’s newest species

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:00:43 +1000

Five years ago, a fossil found in the Philippines was determined to be from a new species of hominin called Homo luzonensis. Since then, we’ve learned a bit more about the newest member of the human family

Water purifier is powered by static electricity from your body

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:00:31 +1000

A 10-minute walk can build up enough static electricity to power a battery-free water purifier, which could be especially helpful during disasters or in regions that lack access to clean water and stable power supplies

Embryos pause development when nutrients are low — and now we know how

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:00:42 +1000

Embryos seem to have a sensor that picks up when nutrients are scarce, prompting them to pause their development until resources become more abundant again

A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 05:00:40 +1000

A once-independent bacterium has evolved into an organelle that provides nitrogen to algal cells – an event so rare that there are only three other known cases

AI can spot parasites in stool samples to help diagnose infections

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 05:00:09 +1000

About 1.5 billion people worldwide carry a risk of conditions including malnutrition because of parasitic infection, and AI could help identify those affected

Quantum 'supersolid' matter stirred using magnets

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 04:00:43 +1000

We can’t stir ordinary solids, but one research team now claims to have stirred an extraordinary quantum “supersolid”, generating tiny vortices

How Peter Higgs revealed the forces that hold the universe together

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:40:29 +1000

The physicist Peter Higgs quietly revolutionised quantum field theory, then lived long enough to see the discovery of the Higgs boson he theorised. Despite receiving a Nobel prize, he remained in some ways as elusive as the particle that shares his name

Bye bye to 158 DC cherry trees over climate fears – UN vs. UN battle about ‘2 years to save world’ – Kerry declares you are ‘GREEDY’ – EU court rules ‘Climate inaction’ violates human rights

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:33:03 +1000

D.C. Cherry Blossoms Aren’t Safe Around Climate Activists! National Park System to cut down 158 cherry trees to make room for a seawall so D.C. can ‘withstand about 100 years of future sea level rise UN vs. UN: UN climate chief declares humans have ‘two years to save the world’ – But UN scientist rubbishes […]

Testing drugs on mini-cancers in the lab may reveal best treatment

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:00:56 +1000

A small early-stage trial of the approach, which involves testing dozens of drug combinations on thousands of dishes of cells, may help people with cancer live for longer

Air pollution can make insects mate with the wrong species

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:00:20 +1000

Ground-level ozone, a product of pollution from cars, degrades insect pheromones, and this can result in mismatched mating and sterile offspring

‘Spirit Whales’ (which ‘no-one believes exist’) hold up Australia’s most expensive energy project

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:34:05 +1000

"If the gas project was to go ahead, the Spirit Whales would be endangered. And if the Spirit Whales were killed, none of the creatures of the sea would know what do to. Short of Aqua Man stepping in to save the day, the planet would be sunk. How did the Federal Court know all of this? Raelene Cooper! Ms Cooper, or as her activist friends like to call her, the Custodian of Whale Dreaming, speaks to the Spirit Whales. And they speak to her. Seriously. This was in evidence presented to the Federal Court."

Watch: Morano on Epoch TV: Global Elites are pushing a ‘climate emergency’ to push ‘a central planned vision of the world’

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:26:08 +1000

Global Elites the world’s people to believe in a “climate emergency”, and they’re manipulating science and creating “Green Movements” to do it. In Washington DC, we sat down with Mr. Marc Morano @ClimateDepot to try and uncover the truth. pic.twitter.com/jRnqZqz0qg — The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) March 17, 2024

Politico: ‘Political violence has an increasingly common outlet — the electric grid!’ – ‘Why extremists keep trying to turn out the lights’

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:20:38 +1000

Security experts attribute the rise in attacks to a growth in domestic extremism and terrorism, enabled by public messaging boards where people share information about how to target vulnerabilities in the power system.

Net Zero Leaves U.K. Paying Five Times More for Electricity Than China

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:16:53 +1000

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/09/net-zero-leaves-u-k-paying-five-times-more-for-electricity-than-china/ BY DR JOHN FERNLEY The United Nations established the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change in 1988 and in 1995 the first climate change Conference of Parties (COP1) was held in Berlin. There has been a COP meeting every year since then, apart from 2020 when covid intervened. Last year COP28 was held in the […]

Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring aliens

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:00:15 +1000

We don’t know what alien life might look like, but if other civilisations can colonise multiple worlds, we might see planets that look unusually similar

CERN Created a Black Hole, Opening a Portal to Another Dimension, Seriously?

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:39:10 +1000

Bizarre misconceptions about CERN's activities, creating black holes as doorways to Hell, and alleged occult ties persist, despite scientific evidence discrediting these claims.

Study: Clearer skies may be accelerating global warming – Declining pollution causing warming – ‘Earth’s skies are getting clearer & letting in more sunshine’

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:09:27 +1000

https://www.science.org/content/article/clearer-skies-may-be-accelerating-global-warming Excerpt: A new study, published Wednesday in Communications Earth & Environment, suggests one reason for such an acceleration: Earth’s skies are getting clearer and letting in more sunshine. The study was prompted by a set of NASA instruments in space that since 2001 have tracked the delicate balance of energy entering and leaving the […]

Watch: John Kerry claims ‘greed’ is the biggest hurdle to fighting climate change – ‘Put it down to greed. G-R-E-E-D. Greed’

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:57:01 +1000

"Greed" is the biggest hurdle people don't wanna transition says US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry on the third and final day of the Bloomberg #NewEconomyForum in Singapore https://t.co/hiVhUNA19N pic.twitter.com/2r1e6vmTfs — Bloomberg New Economy (@BBGNewEconomy) November 10, 2023

Watch mini humanoid robots showing off their football skills

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 05:00:44 +1000

These soccer-playing robots can respond faster than ones trained in a standard way because they improved their skills via an artificial intelligence-based technique called deep reinforcement learning

Some of our favourite songs make us sad, which may be why we like them

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 05:00:38 +1000

Our favourite sad songs seem to become less enjoyable when we try to take the emotion out of them

Post-surgery infections may mainly be caused by skin bacteria

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 05:00:26 +1000

The skin microbiome may be a bigger cause of post-operative wound infections than bacteria contaminating hospital equipment

Why nutrition needs to be on the educational agenda

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +1000

Nutrition must be as essential as maths or science at our educational institutions to solve the US obesity crisis, says Aman Majmudar

We can't get to net zero without tackling inequality

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +1000

Inequality is a major obstacle to sustainability. The super-rich are an environmental horror story that we can't ignore, says Graham Lawton

Why AIs that tackle complex maths could be the next big breakthrough

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +1000

Research-level mathematics might seem an unlikely proving ground for artificial intelligence, but recent developments suggest it offers a route to automated human-like reasoning

Bizarre crystal made only of electrons revealed in astonishing detail

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:00:10 +1000

To capture the clearest and most direct images of a “Wigner crystal”, a structure made entirely of electrons, researchers used a special kind of microscope and two pieces of graphene unusually free of imperfections

Fractal pattern identified at molecular scale in nature for first time

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:00:02 +1000

An enzyme in a cyanobacterium can take the unusual form a triangle containing ever-smaller triangular gaps, making a fractal pattern

Climate Irony: US cuts coal power to record lows while China hits record high coal imports

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:35:17 +1000

Record climate irony: US cuts coal power to record lows while China defies predictions with record high coal imports.https://t.co/bYbyyJ42bZhttps://t.co/QxVC8SSGky pic.twitter.com/XtfRGHJP2x — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) April 9, 2024

UN vs. UN: UN climate chief declares humans have ‘two years to save the world’ – But UN scientist rubbishes UN claim as ‘meaningless rhetoric’ & ‘counterproductive’

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:14:58 +1000

United Nations executive climate secretary Simon Stiell: “Who exactly has two years to save the world? The answer is every person on this planet,” Stiell said.

“‘Two years to save the world’ is meaningless rhetoric — at best, it’s likely to be ignored, at worst, it will be counterproductive,” said Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, who is also a professor of international affairs. [Note: Oppenheimer has also served as UN IPCC Coordinating Lead Author.]

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Earth ‘serially doomed’: The official history of climate ‘Tipping Points’ began in 1864 – A new ‘global warming’ 12-year deadline from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez

George Perkins Marsh in his 1864 book: Man and Nature” – published in 1864: “The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence … would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism, and perhaps even extinction of the species.”

George Perkins Marsh

D.C. Cherry Blossoms Aren’t Safe Around Climate Activists! National Park System to cut down 158 cherry trees to make room for a seawall so D.C. can ‘withstand about 100 years of future sea level rise’

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:06:09 +1000

https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/08/d-c-cherry-blossoms-arent-safe-around-climate-activists-and-neither-are-we/ BY: NATHAN STONE The National Park Service — the organization supposedly missioned to preserve “unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations”– will, after the 2024 National Cherry Blossom Festival, cut down 300 trees in Washington, D.C., 158 of which will be cherry […]

Robinette Hood: Here’s How Biden’s EV Agenda Will Take From The Poor And Give To The Rich

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:02:58 +1000

Robinette Hood: Here’s How Biden’s EV Agenda Will Take From The Poor And Give To The Rich By NICK POPE President Joe Biden’s massive electric vehicle (EV) agenda will subsidize the lifestyles of America’s well-to-do while hitting average people the hardest, economists and auto market analysts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Biden administration […]

New Book on climatologist: Everything Reminds Me of Tim: Biography of Tim Ball – He spent the better part of his career trying to convince the world that ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’ was a man-made hoax.

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:59:57 +1000

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/everything-reminds-me-of-tim-marty-ball/1144993389?ean=9781960405265 by Marty Ball Tim came to Canada from England in 1957 at the age of 17. He worked in Toronto and Sudbury until 1960 when he joined the RCAF as an Aircrew Radio Operator. He was trained in Winnipeg, where he met and married Marty, who was a student nurse at St. Boniface Hospital. Tim […]

Papa Pete Demands We Quit Clinging to Our ‘Religion’

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:56:42 +1000

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2024/04/09/papa_pete_demands_we_quit_clinging_to_our_religion_1023966.html By Duggan Flanakin April 09, 2024 Remember the American love for the open road? That paean to American freedom built on the automobile, but made possible by highways that also enabled trucks to deliver goods to just about any location quickly and safely? Hot cars are still popular today, as evidenced by the fact […]