IPCC 1.5℃ report: here's what the climate science says
Oct 09, 2018 12:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
The worlds climate scientists have spoken: if we want to limit human-induced global warming to 1.5℃ we probably can. But it will be tough, given where were starting from. Thats the conclusion of a new report by the UNs...
Wildfires in Mediterranean Europe will increase by 40% at 1.5°C warming, say scientists
Oct 04, 2018 15:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Europes Mediterranean regions have strong sunshine, bright blue seas, beautiful beaches, and pretty holiday houses immersed in pine forests that provide welcome shade. It sounds very inviting, but such a scenario is also...
2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: a turning point in the war on cancer
Oct 04, 2018 15:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
There are moments in the history of scientific achievement that benchmark the end of an era and the beginning of a new phase of reality for mankind. The significance of these inflection points is sometimes readily...
2018 Nobel Prize for physics goes to tools made from light beams – a particle physicist explains
Oct 04, 2018 15:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Arthur Ashkin. Niklas Elmehed. Nobel Media, CC BY-SA Gerard Mourou. Niklas Elmehed. Nobel Media, CC BY-SA Our world is full of light and we depend upon it to power life on our planet. So it is appropriate to...
And then there were three: finally, another woman awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics
Oct 04, 2018 15:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Three, only three, is the number of women who have been awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in the 117-year history of the prize. Donna Strickland, aged 59 and an associate professor at the University of Waterloo, in...
50 years old, '2001: A Space Odyssey' still offers insight about the future
Oct 04, 2018 15:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Watching a 50th anniversary screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I found myself, a mathematician and computer scientist whose research includes work related to artificial intelligence, comparing the storys vision of the...
How the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry have transformed research and saved lives
Oct 04, 2018 14:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 has been awarded to three researchers for their work on harnessing the power of evolution to create compounds that are of benefit to humanity. One half of the nine million Swedish kronor...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects