Category: Science and Nature

Key PointsUkraine’s special forces said on Monday they had killed Sokolov, Moscow’s top admiral in Crimea.Sokolov was shown attending a video conference on Tuesday.Earlier on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on the Ukrainian claim.One of Russia’s most senior navy officers has been shown attending a video conference, a day after Ukrainian special

President Joe Biden’s trip to suburban Detroit on Tuesday was about so much more than a show of support for striking autoworkers. It was history in action – the first time a sitting American president joined a picket line. It also was an effort by a struggling Democratic president with a personal narrative centered on working-class

Joel Gruchot https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4894-4679, Isabel Lewen https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9818-6218, Michael Dietrich https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4055-6711, Laura Reiche https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-9925, Mustafa Sindi https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2890-2336, Christina Hecker, Felisa Herrero https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2055-1147, Benjamin Charvet, Ulrike Weber-Stadlbauer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5278-9993, Hans-Peter Hartung https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0614-6989, Philipp Albrecht https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7987-658X, Hervé Perron https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2551-7685, Urs Meyer https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7244-0345, and Patrick Küry https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2654-1126 [email protected]Authors Info & AffiliationsEdited by Lawrence Steinman, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; received May 16

Jun Cheng https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5573-9791 [email protected], Guido Novati, Joshua Pan, Clare Bycroft https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1139-0732, Akvilė Žemgulytė, Taylor Applebaum https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6716-8006, Alexander Pritzel, Lai Hong Wong, Michal Zielinski https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5758-5167, Tobias Sargeant https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0909-7182, Rosalia G. Schneider https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6651-2530, Andrew W. Senior https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2401-5691, John Jumper https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6169-6580, Demis Hassabis https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2812-9917, Pushmeet Kohli https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7466-7997 [email protected], and Žiga Avsec https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7790-8936 [email protected]Authors Info & AffiliationsScience19 Sep 2023Vol

In recent years, exploring natural compounds with functional properties to ameliorate aging-associated cognitive decline has become a research priority to ensure healthy aging. In a new study, researchers at the University of Tsukuba investigated the effects of trigonelline — a naturally occurring alkaloid compound found in various plants, including coffee beans, fenugreek, and Japanese radish

For the second year in a row, inflation outpaced growth in U.S. engineering salaries, according to the IEEE-USA 2023 Salary and Benefits Survey. That’s the first multiyear dip in real income since the 2000s.In current dollars, the median income of U.S. engineers and other tech professionals who were IEEE members grew 6 percent from US

Published September 25, 20235 min readWhen Azerbaijan launched a military offensive earlier this month to retake Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region of the South Caucasus, it reignited the flames of a centuries-old dispute. The Azeri victory, which has prompted thousands of ethnic Armenian residents to flee the region, is the latest—and possibly last—in a series of

Wildfires in California, exacerbated by human-driven climate change, are getting more severe. To better manage them, there’s a growing need to know exactly what fuels the blazes after they ignite. In a study published in Environmental Research Letters, Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine report that one of the chief fuels of

Published September 25, 20239 min readTackling a via ferrata (Italian for ‘iron path’) is a bit like joining a circus highwire act or becoming a Hollywood stuntperson for a day. Made up of steel cables, rungs and ladders to arrest the effect of any fall, these bolted climbing routes are an undeniably thrilling, daunting and

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. As gas-guzzling cars are replaced by their electric counterparts, tailpipe emissions are on the decline. But cars have other negative impacts on environmental health, beyond what comes out of their exhaust pipes. One of the bigger, and lesser known, problems is tire pollution—or