New Scientist

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Wilson picks her top five reads of 2024 Murder in space, a sexbot, a dystopian vision of the future: our science fiction columnist Emily H.

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2024 138

New Scientist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

We collected some of the wildest physics that New Scientist covered in 2024, findings that are forcing scientists – and us – to rethink reality

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2024 145

Scientific American

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The phrase “brain rot” spiked 230 percent from 2023 to 2024, according to the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 11, 2024

2024 was another year of record-breaking heat and extreme weather, including devastating floods, storms and wildfires across the globe

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Yale E360

JANUARY 10, 2024

Analysts project another record year for sales of electric vehicles, driven largely by surging demand in China, the biggest market for battery-powered cars. Read more on E360 →

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Two of the three science Nobel prizes in 2024 have been won by people working in AI, but does this mean that AI models are now vital for science?

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2024 144

Cool Green Science

DECEMBER 7, 2024

The post Cool Green Holiday Book Review 2024 appeared first on Cool Green Science. Six books ranging from eels to owls to outdoor adventures that will make great gifts for your loved ones, or yourself.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This is a follow-on post to the previous summary of interesting work related to the temperatures in 2023/2024. 6 Dec 2024: Goessling et al (2024) This is perhaps the most interesting of the papers so far that look holistically at the last couple of years of anomalies. Watch this space… References H.F. Goessling, T.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Notably, SCG has actually reversed course on its projections for gas demand between the 2022 and 2024 California Gas Reports, projecting in 2022 that gas demand in SoCal would decrease at an annual rate of 1.5 percent between 2024 and 2040, despite a significant expansion in building decarbonization policies between 2022 and 2024.

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election could set the climate agenda, reshape public education and shift the dynamics of global science collaboration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In August, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its updated forecast for the 2024 hurricane season. Despite a quiet peak hurricane season in August and early September, 2024 will be a year to remember. It was to be above normal in every regard: more named storms and stronger hurricanes than usual.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2024

On December 18, the PA Resources Council announced the student and adult winners of the 2024 Gene Capaldi Lens On Litter Photo Contest. PRC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of our volunteer judging panel and sponsors of Lens on Litter 2024 Carolyn Capaldi , Robert & Mary Capaldi , Sheetz, Inc. Keep PA Beautiful and Wegmans

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With climate change and an incipient El Niño driving up temperatures, 2024 is likely to eclipse 2023 as the hottest year ever, meteorologists project. Read more on E360 →

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election could reshape policies from health care at home to nuclear proliferation abroad.

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2024 136

New Scientist

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Forget Megalopolis and Madame Web. The best science fiction films of the year were all horror-inflected, says our film columnist Simon Ings

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2024 135

Scientific American

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Unsolvable problems, many-dimensional wheels and new prime numbers are among new mathematical discoveries this year

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2024 128

Scientific American

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A collection of nonfiction and fiction books Scientific American editorial staff and contributors read and recommend in 2024

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2024 85

New Scientist

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Renewable energy continued to grow in 2024, and there were other hopeful developments in technologies aiming to reverse the rise in greenhouse gas emissions

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Technology Technology 2024 Renewable Energy 93

New Scientist

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From a scientific take on screen time to nuclear war, a look at why we age to the future of our oceans, our writers pick their favourite popular science books of the year

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Real Climate

JANUARY 5, 2024

1.37 ± 0.03 * 2024 1.38 ± 0.14 What happens in 2024 will be important. Does it go back to being predictable based on ENSO (in which case 2024 is expected to just be a little warmer than 2023), or does the positive anomaly persist? 2017 1.06 ± 0.13 2018 1.05 ± 0.14 2019 1.18 ± 0.15 2020 1.21 ± 0.14 2021 1.16 ± 0.14 2022 1.23 ± 0.14

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

But the fact that 2024 is a leap year seems apt for a period in which the US clean energy market seems poised to leap to a whole new level, in exciting and even startling ways. Solar will have its biggest year ever Solar and wind have been clean energy generation superstars for a while now, and 2024 should be no exception.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 4, 2024

There are slimmer sci-fi pickings than usual at the end of the year, but gems can still be found, whether that’s a visit to George R. Martin’s Wild Card universe, or a graphic novel adaptation of Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem

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2024 127

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In 2024 students are determined to show up to vote, make their voices heard, and overcome any systemic, institutional, and individual challenges that stand in their way. If you want to help us set a new record for STEM student voter turnout in 2024, join us! different civic engagement activities.

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2024 299

New Scientist

DECEMBER 11, 2024

People in multiple US states tested positive for bird flu this year, raising concerns about the pandemic potential of the virus

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2024 129

New Scientist

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Ingenuity autonomous helicopter surpassed all expectations to fly dozens of missions over several years on the Red Planet, only stopping this year when an accident damaged one of its rotors

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2024 119

New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners of this year's Ig Nobel prizes, for research that "makes people laugh, then think"

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2024 145

New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners of this year's Ig Nobel prizes, for science that "makes people laugh, then think"

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2024 143

Real Climate

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Fig 3 from Blackport et al (2024). A new paper, Blackport et al (2024) makes it extremely clear that this masking step is essential for the regions looked at by Cohen et al, and without it, the trends are compromised. The demonstration of this is shown on the right. Cohen et al., Cohen, J.A. Francis, and K. Blackport, and J.A.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

From June 2023 to August 2024, the world saw 15 months in a row of record-breaking heat, a stretch so extreme that it confounded scientists. A new animation from NASA shows the severity of warming. Read more on E360 →

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2024 2023 228

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In 2024, the average cost to plug wells under the initial Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Grant was just over $105,000. So far in 2024, 26 violations were issued or continued to 10 shale gas well owners [ Diversified Prod LLC ; Big Dog Energy LLC follow-up; Big Dog Energy LLC ; EQT Production Co.; Read more here.

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Scientific American

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The next U.S. president will have to contend with regulations around AI—and the electorate is already facing AI-generated misinformation.

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Regulations 2024 141

Scientific American

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This year scientists found universal language for pain, tracked why some words go extinct, developed mind-reading brain-to-speech technology, and more

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2024 Technology Technology 105

Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The agency wants a reduction of the potent emissions of 40% started in 2024. The post EPA Proposes Stricter HFC Rules appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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2024 264

New Scientist

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This year has delivered some awe-inspiring imagery of space, from the James Webb Space Telescopes stunning shots of faraway stars and galaxies to images of the skies taken from here on planet Earth

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2024 90

Real Climate

MAY 30, 2024

2024) , for instance, New Scientist , The Guardian etc. Preprint) Schoeberl et al (2024) “HTHH produced a global forcing of -0.17±0.07 NEW (May 30, 2024) Yuan et al. 2024) Looked at the impact of Chinese aerosol emission decreases from 2010 to 2020 and saw increases in North Pacific ocean temperatures. Schoeberl, Y.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

UCS/S&P Global Mobility, 2024 Some states are seeing more accelerated deployments than others. UCS/S&P Global Mobility, 2024 Several key reasons are behind this accelerated adoption. Source: UCS/ US Census Bureau, 2024 As mentioned earlier, another major factor is lower operating costs.

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