Abu Dhabi/Geneva – Global renewable energy jobs grew only modestly in 2024 despite installations hitting new highs, according to a report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The…
Japan’s largest complete dinosaur skeleton discovered
The complete skeleton of an 8-meter-long dinosaur has been unearthed from marine deposits dating back 72 million years at Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, making it the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in Japan, according…
XMM-Newton slew tracks
[caption id="attachment_12493" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton/A. Read/R. Saxton[/caption] This blue ‘ball of string’ actually records 2114 movements made by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope as it shifted its gaze from one X-ray object to another between…
Newly identified gene helps time spring flowering in…
[caption id="attachment_12490" align="alignright" width="375"] Waiting through a cold season to flower weighs heavily on the amount of biomass a plant accumulates. The Brachypodium grass on the right holds out through winter before beginning vernalization and…
Quantifying the effects of climate change
[caption id="attachment_12485" align="alignnone" width="700"] Carbon dioxide increase[/caption] Last year was the hottest on record, Arctic sea ice is on the decline and sea levels continue to rise. In this context, satellites are providing us with…