Tag: Science

Researchers Develop a Cheaper and Less Invasive Alternative to IVF Treatments

University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers have developed a cheaper and less invasive alternative to traditional fertility treatments that is now available at Sydney’s Royal Hospital for women. In vitro fertilisation or IVF has been the established treatment for infertility for a long time. However, this method is expensive, and to stimulate egg growth…


Australian Seaweed Supplement Touted to Reduce Livestock Industry Emissions Goes on Market After Years of ‘Extensive’ Research

A native Australian seaweed shown to reduce methane emissions in cattle has seen its first commercial purchase by a South Australian meat processor just weeks after the global sale of the seaweed was announced. This follows four years of extensive research and fast-tracked commercial licensing between Australia-government researchers at CSIRO, Meat and Livestock Australia, and…


An Inconvenient Truth About the Amazon Rainforest

Commentary What you have been told about the Amazon rainforest is not necessarily the truth, and quite to the contrary. For example, World Wildlife Fund claims that more than a quarter of the Amazon rainforest will be devoid of trees by 2030 if cutting continues at the same speed. In reality, deforestation in the Amazon…


Dutch Farmers Protest Climate Mandates That would Cut Livestock by 30 Percent

Dutch farmers are continuing their demonstrations against a government climate policy that officials expect to end many farmers’ livelihoods, with organizers on Telegram planning July 4 protests they say will “flatten” the whole of the Netherlands. The message calls on concerned farmers and citizens to organize their own regional actions with the goal of closing…


South African Human Fossils More Than a Million Years Older Than Previously Thought

Fossils of early human ancestors that were found in a cave in South Africa are now thought to be a million years older than originally estimated, thereby shaking the current scientific understanding of human evolution and its origins. Fossils from the Sterkfontein Cave, belonging to the genus Australopithecus, were initially thought to have been from…


Japan Terminates Funding for Coal Power Plants in Indonesia and Bangladesh

Japan will stop providing loans for two key coal-fired power plant projects in Indonesia and Bangladesh, citing its commitment to phase out coal power plants in line with the Group of Seven (G–7) nations. The two projects involved the Indramayu coal plant in Indonesia and the Matarbari coal plant in Bangladesh. Japan’s Foreign Ministry Press…


Volkswagen, Siemens Among Companies Investing Over $700 Million to Boost EV Charger Production

Private companies including Volkswagen and Siemens have pledged to invest more than $700 million to boost U.S. manufacturing capacity for electric vehicle (EV) chargers, the White House announced on Tuesday. The move is set to increase domestic capacity to manufacture more than 250,000 new EV chargers every year and will add at least 2,000 jobs, while…


Meet the ‘Zombie Star’ That Survived a Supernova Blast

WASHINGTON—Astronomers have observed in a relatively nearby galaxy a star that not only survived what ordinarily should have been certain death—a stellar explosion called a supernova—but emerged from it brighter than before the blast. Meet the “zombie star.” The star at issue, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope, is a kind known as a white…


NASA Hopes New Zealand Launch Will Pave Way for Moon Landing

WELLINGTON, New Zealand—NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface. So it is sending up a test satellite from New Zealand. The initial stages of the launch went according to plan late Tuesday, with…


Nanoparticles Could Be the Key to Cheaper, Faster and More Reliable Internet

Australian National University (ANU) physicists have developed new tech that controls the direction that light can and cannot travel in using nanoparticles, possibly discovering the path to cheaper, faster and more reliable internet. In collaboration with colleagues from Singapore, China and Germany, ANU scientists have developed small translucent slides that produce two different images, depending…