Signals

Helium gas may be seeping from Earth’s core, say scientists who found extremely high helium isotope ratios in lavas on Baffin Island

Increased melting of ice in Greenland and Antarctica, measured by satellite gravity, has decreased the angular velocity of Earth more rapidly than before and has already affected global timekeeping.

As new offerings for advertisers arrive, Google’s share of the U.S. search ad market is projected by one research firm to drop below 50% next year.

The long-duration energy storage startup has raised a total of $1.2 billion. Form is expanding its West Virginia factory and working on its first…

Concerned about the future of our planet? WWF’s Living Planet Report provides critical insights into plummeting wildlife populations and potential solutions.

Blockchain evidence points to users carrying out market manipulation to inflate trading volumes on the popular political betting platform.

Fuseproject has designed a body for a robotic system by a tech studio Kind Humanoid designed for various domestic and commercial environments.

A scathing Navy investigation reveals how USS Manchester's enlisted leaders endangered their ship with an unauthorized Starlink Wi-Fi setup.

As greenwashing gets more public scrutiny, a new phenomenon seems to offer a far more challenging barrier to sustainability and climate…

A history of policemen using violent content to build their online personalities has policymakers on edge.

The lifestyle and social media platform, often compared to Instagram, is turning obscure sites into must-see attractions.

The mind-boggling figure has been levied due to the company restricting Russian state media on YouTube.

Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres

The threat of toxic fandoms — from Star Wars and Lord of the Rings to Bridgerton and Game of Thrones — has become an intractable headache for almost every studio.

Models powered entirely by internal combustion engines will soon be a minority of sales, and the automaker is plotting their demise.

In her first days as Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum made a point of distancing herself from the fossil fuel reliance promoted by her predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and vowed to resume an energy transition that he halted.

Every year, more people across the United States experience climate disasters, forcing them to leave their homes, lose their belongings, and be separated from jobs and …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rarely out of the news or the public imagination. Images of red-eyed Terminators illustrate press accounts of incremental advances in medical diagnosis, facial recognition, natural language processing, and robotics. Such advances are transforming society through measurable impacts on people’s decisions and opportunities. Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction explores an emerging field with a religious studies approach, drawing on cultur

The feat could enable large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers

In the single largest equipment deal in the Liebherr Group's 75-year history, Liebherr and Australian mining company Fortescue have announced a massive expansion of their electric vehicle collaboration. This includes the delivery of 475 new Liebherr electric vehicles with Fortescue technology to Fortescue's mining operations in Western Australia.

The popular ski resort of Zermatt is in the affected area.

Weight loss drugs appear to be having an effect at the population level

New research documents accelerating plant growth on the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby islands.

Artificial intelligence used to help researchers plan experiments and better predict outcomes

The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home address.

The impact of climate change on human societies is now well recognised. However, little is known about how climate change alters health conditions over time. National level data around climate shocks and subsequent rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) could have relevance for resilience policy and programming. We hypothesise that climate shocks are associated with a higher national prevalence of IPV two years following a shock, and that this relationship persists for countries with different levels of economic development. We compiled national data for the prevalence of IPV from 363 nationally representative surveys from 1993 to 2019. These representative data from ever-partnered women defined IPV incidence as any past-year act of physical and/or sexual violence. We also compiled data from the Emergency Events Database (EM DAT) on the national frequency of eight climate shocks from 1920 to 2022 within 190 countries. Using exploratory factor analysis, we fit a three-factor latent variable composed of climate shock variables. We then fit a structural equation model from climate shocks (lagged by two years) and IPV incidence, controlling for (log) national gross domestic product (GDP). National data representing 156 countries suggest a significant relationship between IPV and a climate factor (Hydro-meteorological) composed of storms, landslides and floods (standardised estimate = 0·32; SE = 0·128; p = 0·012). GDP has a moderately large cross-sectional association with IPV (estimate = -0·529; SE = 0·047; p = 0·0001). Other climate shocks (Geological: earthquakes/volcanos; Atmospheric: wildfire/droughts/extreme temperature) had no measurable association with IPV. Model fit overall was satisfactory (RMSEA = 0·064 (95%CI: 0·044–0·084); CFI = 0·91; SRMR = 0·063). Climate shocks have a longitudinal association with IPV incidence in global population-based data. This suggests an urgent need to address the higher prevalence of IPV likely to come about through climate shocks due to climate change. Our analysis offers one way policy makers could track national progress using existing data.

New York design studio Oxman has devised a system called "ecological programming" to optimise green architecture, demonstrated through a conceptual skyscraper with multiple planted platforms.

Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.