Researchers at Scripps have created T7-ORACLE, a powerful new tool that speeds up evolution, allowing scientists to design and improve proteins thousands of times faster than nature. Using engineered bacteria and a modified viral replication system, this method can create new protein versions in days instead of months. In tests,Continue Reading
Extreme heat is breaking records around the world, with wildfires and poor air quality compounding the crisis, according to a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released Thursday. Continue Reading
They joined a chorus of critics across the country, where grantees in almost every state had been awarded funds to provide solar energy for 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities. By Lisa Sorg Democratic U.S. House members from North Carolina on Thursday condemned the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan toContinue Reading
The administration said it will go hunting for cases of wind energy companies unintentionally killing migratory birds — something it has long argued is not a violation of federal law. The post The The Traitor team sets double standard on migratory bird rules appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
A new study shows that since 1990, fire season is arriving up to two months earlier across many parts of California.Continue Reading
Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, a groundbreaking DNA study reveals that the deep sea is far more globally connected than once thought. By analyzing thousands of brittle stars preserved in museum collections, scientists discovered these ancient creatures have silently migrated across the planet’s seafloor for millions of years, forming aContinue Reading
The various aspects of design — such as creation, function, and aesthetic — can be applied to many different disciplines and provide them with a value. While this is universally true for architecture, it has not traditionally been acknowledged for real estate, despite the close association between the two. Traditionally,Continue Reading
PJM Interconnection has overseen two record-breaking capacity auctions, leading to costs that get passed on to consumers. By Dan Gearino, Rambo Talabong PJM Interconnection, the nonprofit that manages the country’s largest electricity grid region, is barely known by the general public and almost never mentioned by elected officials—except when somethingContinue Reading
Funding for FEMA’s disaster survivor hotline lapsed the day after the Texas floods, federal records show. It took DHS Secretary Kristi Noem five days to approve more money. (Image credit: Jim Vondruska)Continue Reading
Efforts are getting underway in Geneva to finalize a global agreement to tackle the staggering and growing amount of plastic waste and its impact on human health, marine life and the economy.Continue Reading
In April 2024, China broke the average temperature record that month. The following month, it was the same – and then again in August. And September. And November.Continue Reading
James Orr, an ally of Nigel Farage and JD Vance, accused the UK of adopting a “naive and dangerous” approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at an event organised by an oil-funded think tank. Speaking at a festival hosted by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Esztergom, Hungary last week, Orr accusedContinue Reading
EU grant money was used to fund a media workshop on plastic pollution that was run in partnership with a fossil fuel lobby group, DeSmog can reveal. The event, held in May, came at a crucial time – just months before the start of the latest UN Global Plastics TreatyContinue Reading