In November, a company sold a tract of virtual real estate for about $2.5 million worth of cryptocurrency. | MR.Cole/Getty Images You can now be a landlord in the metaverse. The metaverse is getting hotter....
Extreme winters caused by climate change are making blackouts longer and more common. | Rick Loomis/Getty Images. Winter is often the season for blackouts. Smart grids could change that. This year, millions of Americans across...
Following weeks of debate, protests and promises, the COP26 climate summit came to an end, and produced the Glasgow Climate Pact, an agreement signed by attendees to change their energy policies to ensure the safety of the Earth’s environment.
Yet...
Our analysis shows a significant shift in focus toward academics beginning in 2019 and continuing through 2020. In 2018, none of the cases were about research integrity. By 2020, 16 of the 31 (52%) of newly announced cases were....
The Justice Department itself has not been very forthcoming. As we explain in our main piece, DOJ officials have so far failed to provide a clear definition of what constitutes a China Initiative case, or how many cases in...
SolidJS is a unique approach to reactive front-end JavaScript. It provides a compact set of reactive “primitives” and leverages those to support higher-order functionality. This sounds somewhat like AngularJS and its use of ReactiveX, but it is quite a...
Construction of solar farms, wind turbines, and other sources of renewable power will soar over the next five years as nations set stricter climate policies and more ambitious emissions targets. New renewable electricity capacity will set another record this...
The experiment: It’s hard to test transmission in a lab, so this is an experiment that happens in the real world. Researchers will use sequencing tests to track what fraction of the actual covid-19 cases they see are due...
Starting last Friday, the race was on—between a virus and information about it. And for a while, the information moved faster, even though there was hardly any of it.Scientists in South Africa identified a new variant of the virus...
A worker packs and ships customer orders at an Amazon fulfillment center. | Scott Olson/Getty Images “Amazon is the only winner here.” Amazon has always presented its Marketplace, where outside businesses sell products through Amazon’s...
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