Summary of PreMevE-MEO model results. Credit: Space Weather (2024). DOI: 10.1029/2024SW003975 “Killer electrons” that travel at nearly light speed inside Earth’s Van Allen belts—the zone that surrounds the planet and traps energetic charged particles—pose a major threat to equipment in space by causing malfunctions in electronics. Now, in a collaboration between Los Alamos National Laboratory … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain European marine researchers are calling for an urgent improvement and standardization of ocean monitoring. The call is also addressed to the international community, which gathers in Baku starting today (Nov. 11) for the UN Climate Change Conference COP29. To preserve the ocean as a partner in the fight against climate change, … Read more
Engaging farmers in selecting grass-legume mixtures adapted to local conditions and providing good yields is essential, says NIBIO researcher Marit Jørgensen, who leads the EthiopiaGrass project. Credit: An Notenbaert Yordanos Anju is a dedicated farmer from the Bilate Zuria district in the Northern Sidama region. For generations, his family has relied on farming and livestock … Read more
Traditional city planning methods require significant technical expertise and manual work. A Virginia Tech researcher is working to change that. New research shows the potential of large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, for assessing the human-made environment using street-view images. By comparing LLM performance with traditional city planning deep learning methods, … Read more
A study led by the University of Bristol shedding new light on how arsenic can be made less dangerous to humans has the potential to dramatically improve water and food safety, especially in the Global South. For the lead researcher it’s an academic and personal mission because he witnessed first-hand the constant struggle to find … Read more
Cutting off cancer cells’ access to fat may help a specific type of cancer treatment work more effectively, reports a study by Van Andel Institute scientists. The findings, published in Cell Chemical Biology, lay the groundwork for developing tailored dietary strategies to help anti-cancer medications better kill malignant cells. “We want to make cancer treatment … Read more