Humankind has never been better at fighting diseases. Researchers are coming up with new vaccines and treatments at an astounding speed. But climate change is making public health gains a lot harder to achieve and undoing some of the world’s hard-earned progress. Consider the mosquito, which kills more humans than any other creature. Until very…
If you went into 2023 thinking this year would mark the permanent rise of electric vehicles along some perfect, up-and-to-the-right growth curve, a gloomy tide of recent news may have you wondered how and when, exactly, you ended up in the Twilight Zone. In just the past few weeks, General Motors had a disastrous Q3…
President Biden’s decision on Wednesday to block drilling on millions of acres of Alaskan tundra was the latest in a series of aggressive actions recently taken by the administration to curtail fossil fuel extraction on public land and in federal waters. Over the past several months, the administration has moved to bar drilling on 1.8…
Ko Arimatsu, an astronomer at Kyoto University in Japan, received an intriguing email a couple of weeks ago: An amateur astronomer in his country had spotted a bright flash in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Dr. Arimatsu, who runs an observation program to study the outer solar system using backyard astronomy equipment, put out a call for more…
Since Ulysses S. Grant was in the White House, any company that mines gold or other metals from public land has been able to haul it away without paying a dime in royalties to the federal government. As demand is spiking for copper, nickel, cobalt and other metals and minerals that are essential for electric…
China’s copper smelting capacity will increase by another 45% by 2027, accounting for 61% of expected new plants around the world in that period. China is in the midst of a breakneck expansion of its copper industry that’s reshaping global flows of the essential metal for the world’s energy transition. The smelter build-up will be…
Surgeons in Baltimore have transplanted the heart of a genetically altered pig into a man with terminal heart disease who had no other hope for treatment, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Friday. It is the second such procedure performed by the surgeons. The first patient, David Bennett, 57, died two months after…
Zapmap, the UK’s leading charge point mapping service, has published new statistics for charge point installations in 2023. The new figures not only show that the number of high-power charging hubs in the UK has more than doubled since September last year, but demonstrate encouraging growth in two key areas of the country’s charge point…
“Gotion’s battery technology will help to boost e-mobility in North America and the economic and trade exchanges between China and the United States,” said Gotion chairman Li Zhen. China’s Gotion High-tech Co Ltd will set up a USD 2 billion electric vehicle (EV) lithium battery manufacturing plant in Manteno, Illinois that would create about 2,600…
To get out and enter the car in a max space, the Tesla Easy Entry setting does a great job by moving the steering wheel and driver’s seat. But this setting can stop working to indicate a problem. It mostly happens due to system failure, software issues, changed Driver Profile settings, limited seat range, or…
