Abu Dhabi, May 21 – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) opened its thirty-first Council meeting on Wednesday at its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, with more than 300 government representatives attending in person and online.…
Uncovering the mechanism of our oldest anesthetic
MIT researchers reveal brainwave changes in patients receiving nitrous oxide, or “laughing gas.” [caption id="attachment_5053" align="alignnone" width="639"] Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT[/caption] CAMBRIDGE, MA-- Nitrous oxide, commonly known as “laughing gas,” has been used in anesthesiology practice since…
Astronomers use cosmic gravity to create a black-hole-scope
[caption id="attachment_5049" align="alignnone" width="625"] Gravitational lensing[/caption] The Integral, Fermi and Swift space observatories have used the magnifying power of a cosmic lens to explore the inner regions of a supermassive black hole. Gamma rays are…
Animal centres used to help predict earthquakes
Chinese scientists are using animals to try to predict when an earthquake may strike, it's reported. [caption id="attachment_5043" align="alignnone" width="660"] Several recent studies observed changes in animal behaviour prior to major quakes[/caption] Seismologists in Nanjing,…
Northwest Sardinia
Description This image over part of the Italian island of Sardinia comes from the very first acquisition by the Sentinel-2A satellite. Launched in the early hours of 23 June, the ‘colour vision’ mission for Europe’s…