The war in Lebanon could be stopped if Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah
Israel’s Security Cabinet on Tuesday approved a US proposal for a ceasefire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said. The announcement came during fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. US President Joe Biden said the deal “will cease the fighting in Lebanon and secure Israel from the threat of Hezbollah and other terrorist organisations operating from Lebanon”.
Top performers have not changed in Australia’s landscape
Researchers in India, the US, and the UK have started to share their research openly for the first time in the first five years of the 21st century, according to a report by Nature Index. The number of publications has increased by more than 90% between 2013 and 2019, with the US, the UK and Australia sharing the most number of articles.
Trump’s tariffs could affect you, too
US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he wants to impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian and Mexican products. He also wants an “additional” 10% tariff on imports from China, which Trump blames for the fentanyl crisis, a charge that China has repeatedly refuted. He added that the tariffs may be targeted for others, but they could impact you too.
We mourned together, it was at the center of the outbreak
The authors of a study have found that for every 1C increase in temperature, there is a 4% increase in risk of a child being born prematurely, one of the leading causes of infant death or long-term disability. The study’s co-author said, “Protecting the health of pregnant women and newborns must become a priority in our response to climate change.”
Emergency vehicle lights can cause a car to go off
A study conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has revealed that an autonomous vehicle’s shared control feature is less likely to make drivers nervous than a hands-free option. The study, which involved five automated driving systems embedded in dashcams purchased off-the-shelf, showed that those whose systems had shared control were 40% less likely to say they would keep their hands off the wheel.
Is the climate deal a breakthrough or a let-down?
Sierra Leone’s Environment Minister Jiwoh Abdulai in a WhatsApp exchange said, “We are leaving with a small portion of the funding climate-vulnerable countries urgently need.” “The core goal of $300 billion a year shows a lack of goodwill. We came in good faith, with the safety of our communities and the well-being of the world at heart,” he added.
The House Ethics committee is divided on whether to release the Gaetz report
The US President-elect Donald Trump has said he appreciated the work of former congresswoman Matt Gaetz in getting approval to be Attorney General. “I appreciate the work of Matt Gaetz in getting approval to be Attorney General…I appreciate the work of Matt Gaetz in getting approval to be Attorney General,” Trump added.
The chemicals can be destroyed with clever chemistry outside of the lab
Scientists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada have discovered a new way to break the bond between a molecule and its constituent. Researchers used carbon-hydrogen absorption to break the bond and the overall molecule down to smaller constituent parts. “This is a first step toward a solar-powered approach,” a researcher said.
Revised historical record has a different view on global warming
To derive uncertainty ranges, we compared the ocean and land temperature reconstructions obtained independently from the Had SST4 dataset and the CRUTEM5 dataset. The observationally derived ( Delta widehatbfT_rmOtext-rmL,rmCMIP6rmGMST), including the error realisations, was compared with the equivalently masked reconstruction range of ocean and land temperatures in the CMIP6 models.
Human body mysteries are being explored by cellular atlases
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have built a human neural organoid cell atlas of over 1.7 million cells using a combination of transcriptomic technologies. The atlas was powered by 36 single-cell RNA-sequencing data sets, and was created using a computational approach. Researchers inferred the origin of metaplastic cells by looking at the data sets and comparing them with stem cells.