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The Latest Winter is over in the Southern Hemisphere and sea ice around Antarctica has likely grown as much as it’s going to for 2023, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Antarctic sea ice reached its lowest peak by a wide margin for any year since 1979, when the continuous satellite record…
The job search landscape has transformed dramatically in just a few years. Gone are the days when applying for jobs was a part-time endeavor. Nowadays, it’s practically a full-time job, especially if you’re out of work and have to document your efforts to claim unemployment benefits. The experience can be overwhelming, but fortunately, technology—particularly artificial…
Their pink bodies began to wash ashore last month, startling locals and scientists in the remote Amazon town of Tefé, Brazil, who had never seen anything like it. A crippling drought had sucked parts of tributaries flowing into the Amazon River nearly dry, causing some water routes to become impassible and turning other shallow areas…
Why It Matters: On a warmer planet, rainstorms are stronger. Human-driven climate change is amplifying flood threats globally. Rising sea levels are leading to more destructive coastal storm surges. A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, which means storms are primed to deliver more rain. But in many countries, the more significant driver of flood…
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Observers following Wednesday’s announcement of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry were left dumbfounded — and not just by quantum dots, the subject of the laureates’ research. What stumped them was how at least two Swedish news outlets had managed to report the names and achievements of the laureates hours before the official announcement. The…
Pope Francis on Wednesday implored the world to protect the “suffering” planet, lamenting that scant progress had been made in the eight years since he refocused the Roman Catholic Church more fully on environmental issues in a landmark and widely praised treatise. “With the passage of time, I have realized that our responses have not…
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers began a three-day strike Wednesday morning, after they failed to reach a new contract deal. The walkout started with employees in Virginia and the District of Columbia, where they set up picket lines outside Kaiser’s facilities. A majority of Kaiser’s workers are in California, where many of…
Stockholm — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots. Moungi Bawendi, of MIT, Louis Brus, of Columbia University, and Alexei Ekimov, of Nanocrystals Technology Inc., were honored for their work with the tiny particles that are just a few atoms in diameter and whose electrons have constrained…
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and development of quantum dots, nanoparticles so small that their size determines their properties. Quantum dots, described by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as the “smallest components of nanotechnology,” are used…
