To remove carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere in an effort to slow climate change, scientists must get their hands dirty and peek underground.
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To End King Coal’s Reign, Must His Loyal Subjects Get Paid? Compensating Phase-Out Losers for a Just Transition
The huge task of phasing out coal requires a detailed roadmap to sequence coal plant retirement with a range of policy instruments and support for key stakeholders which will expand current notions of a just transition, leading energy experts have said.
Seismic Waves Help Scientists 'See' Chemical Changes Beneath a Watershed
Chemical reactions deep below ground affect water quality, but methods for “seeing” them are time-consuming, expensive and limited in scope.
New Blood Test Shows Great Promise in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
A new blood test demonstrated remarkable promise in discriminating between persons with and without Alzheimer’s disease and in persons at known genetic risk may be able to detect the disease as early as 20 years before the onset of cognitive impairment, according to a large international study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and simultaneously presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.
How Will the Population Accept COVID-19 Tracing Apps?
Coronavirus tracing applications for the detection of infection chains are currently being developed and made available across the world.
Iron Deficiency During Infancy Reduces Vaccine Efficacy
Despite the fact that global immunisation programmes are now reaching more people than ever, about 1.5 million children still die every year from diseases that vaccination could have prevented.