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Lauren McLester-Davis becomes UW’s first director of Indigenous science advocacy
Lauren W. Yowelunh McLester-Davis, a University of Wisconsin–Madison neuroscientist and researcher, has joined the Native American Center for Health Professions (NACHP) in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health as its first director of Indigenous science advocacy. In this new position, McLester-Davis will weave together science addressing Alzheimer’s disease and dementias, metabolism, and cognitive…
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At COP28, these young changemakers will help steer the climate agenda
Global Shapers spanning 500 cities globally have impacted millions of lives worldwide, with many projects focused on climate change. At COP28 in Dubai, more than 100 Shapers will continue that work. The Global Shapers, an initiative of the World Economic Forum, has a dedicated taskforce helping them to deliver maximum impact through their projects. Inaugurated…
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Tasmanian tiger skins linked to a brutal history of grave robbing and corpse mutilation, museum finds
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Warning: This article contains disturbing descriptions about the practices of colonial settlers in Tasmania and violence against Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples. CNN — Colonial settlers of the Victorian era were often complicit in atrocities committed against native…
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Baltic Sea Coast Braces for Storm Surges
Kiel University The record storm surge in October 2023 caused severe damage to the German Baltic coast. Effective adaptation scenarios to rising sea levels are therefore becoming increasingly urgent. In two recent studies, researchers at Kiel University have modelled both the flooding extent along the Baltic Sea coastal areas and, for the first time, two…
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COP28 events guide part two: Energy, the built environment, nature and more
Welcome back to the second of our COP28 event guides. Finance Day may have passed but as one of four core cross-cutting themes it will continue to feature across the remainder of the event.
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El Niño: Economic devastation and how it intersects with climate change
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email There is a band of water across the equatorial Pacific Ocean, stretching from the coast of South America through to the island nations of Southeast Asia, whose temperature climatologists closely monitor as a driver of global weather patterns. Typically, warm water that settles around Indonesia during early spring works as…
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Landscape dynamics determine the evolution of biodiversity on Earth
Sediment fluxes to the oceans (pink) vs diversity of marine animals (black) over the past 540 million years. The correlation is striking. (Extinction events are marked) Source: Nature Using open-source scientific code published by the team in Science in March, the detailed simulation was calibrated using modern information about landscape elevations, erosion rates, major river waters and…
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‘Perfect solar system’ found in search for alien life
By Pallab GhoshScience correspondent Roger Thibaut/NCCR PlanetS Artwork: Six worlds around a star like our Sun are ideal to study how planets formed and whether they are home to life Researchers have located “the perfect solar system”, forged without the violent collisions that made our own a hotchpotch of different-sized planets. The system, 100 light…
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Before ancient Egyptians, nature sculpted sphinxes. Here’s how
The Great Sphinx of Giza might have been sculpted by desert winds long before it was ever touched by human hands. Mysterious desert landforms called yardangs can bear an uncanny resemblance to seated lions — so much so that some researchers think one lionlike yardang might have had the honor of later being carved into…
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Astronomers discover six planets orbiting a nearby sun-like star
Astronomers have discovered a six-pack of planets, formed at least 4 billion years ago and remarkably unchanged since, orbiting a nearby sun-like star. The new planets, described in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, could provide a breakthrough in the understanding of how planets form and why there are so many between the…
