A new state law limits Florida communities’ aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and intensifying disasters such as hurricanes. Specifically, HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals. At least 10 cities and counties have implemented such policies, including Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando, and Leon County, where Tallahassee,

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The real issue is whether publishers of scientific journals should retroactively apply contemporary standards regarding duplicate publication or self-plagiarism to historical papers. The journal publishing norms in the early 20th century were substantially different. The emphasis was on achieving the widest dissemination of knowledge across a fragmented scientific community separated by language and geographical distance,

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“Lo and behold, we end up finding that we can explain this apparent discrepancy,” said Hilton. In other words, weathering of organic carbon amplified the warming initiated by volcanic CO2, so the planet warmed more than it would have if only the volcanic CO2 had been emitted. Acid-digested rock samples being prepared for analysis using

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It’s “an exciting advance in efforts to restock the antibiotic arsenal,” Steven Rutherford, a microbial sciences expert at Genentech, wrote in an accompanying commentary piece in Nature. “More broadly, the study provides a road map showing how genome mining can be used to identify new antibacterial natural products and strategies for using them.” The pathway

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The second issue was that in some observations, there were no periodic signals at all. Because we have enough archival observation data, however, the researchers were able to track when the signal appeared and disappeared. And they were able to find a periodicity to that—one that lined up precisely with the star’s cyclic activity. (Think

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The second phase that followed, though, was where things got a little more surprising. Chanut’s team observed that, during the first six months, the majority of oxygen that was getting into the wine wasn’t coming from the outside environment. The oxygen, it turned out, was coming from the cork itself, diffusing out of the microscopic

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But the people who put together climate.gov didn’t go away. While the government didn’t hesitate to delete inconvenient climate information, dedicated volunteers outside the government managed to preserve copies of much of the material, which the federal government is prohibited from copyrighting. The volunteers and former climate.gov admins got together and launched climate.us. On Tuesday,

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The FAA’s environmental review approved SpaceX’s proposal for two Starfall reentry demonstrations. It did not specify if these demos would happen on one or two missions. SpaceX intends to recover the vehicle, including parachutes and heat shields, “to the to the maximum extent practicable,” the FAA said. The Starfall vehicle is cylindrical in shape, with

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There was no mention of that history in the authority’s announcement that it would take the Energy Department grant and spend $48 million more on upgrades. Oklahoma Watch reported that the cash infusion would give the plant several more years of operation. “Extending the life of Unit 2 represents the most cost-effective solution for GRDA,

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Link is just the second space mission developed by Katalyst after a technology demonstration launched in 2024 by Atomos Space, a company Katalyst acquired last year. “When we kicked off the program, I think everyone recognized the biggest risk would be that we weren’t ready to launch in time, that Swift would fall faster than

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