By: Robinson Meyer/The Atlantic As the consequences of climate change strike across the United States, ecologists have a guiding principle about how they think plants will respond. Cold-adapted plants will survive if they move “up”—that is, as they move further north (away from the tropics) and higher in elevation (away from the warm ground). A…
12 Eye-Opening Photos That Will Make You Think Twice About Going Swimming In The Ocean
By: Kristi Shinfuku/Shareably Swimming can seem like a fun time, especially if you’re swimming in a natural body of water with beautiful sea life. While water is truly a wonder, some people have encountered some truly horrifying organisms that will seriously make you reconsider swimming again! This photograph captures just how incredibly vast the ocean…
Low Oxygen Levels In The Ocean Could Lead To More Wildfires In The Future
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science Oxygen is just as important to life below the water as it is on land. The impact of low oxygen concentrations (anoxia) in the oceans can be disastrous, even contributing to mass extinctions in the past. Now, a team of researchers have modeled the effects of anoxic events and found that it takes the oceans at least…
Volvo Says That They Will Stop Making Diesel Engines, Thanks To Tesla
By: Patrick Caughil/Futurism) The Chief Executive of Volvo has announced that, thanks to Tesla, the company is increasing focus on electric vehicles at the expense of diesel engines. The company expects to launch their first electric cars in 2019. DIESEL’S DEATH KNELL Electric vehicles (EVs) are rapidly becoming a juggernaut in the future of personal vehicles….
A Patient With Diabetes No Longer Needs Insulin After Receiving A Bioengineered “Pancreas”
By: Kristin Houser/Futurism A year after receiving a new type of islet cell transplant to treat her severe diabetes, a patient continues to do well and no longer needs insulin injections to manage her disease. A HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Even the most exciting breakthrough medical treatment can be rendered obsolete by a particularly insurmountable obstacle: time. If…
Scientists In Amsterdam Just Destroyed Breast Cancer Tumors In 11 Days Without Chemo
By: Educate Inspire Change Research presented by Professor Nigel Bundred at the European Breast Cancer Conference in Amsterdam revealed that they had tested the effectiveness of a pair of drugs known as Herceptin (a.k.a trastuzumab) and Lapatinib. The two drugs are commonly used in breast cancer treatment already, but this is the first time they had…
A Teenager Just Built The World’s Lightest Satellite – And NASA’s Launching It
By: Bec Crew/Science Alert An Indian teenager has won an international competition to build a functioning satellite, and not only has he produced what is reportedly the world’s lightest satellite device – NASA has also agreed to launch it next month. The tiny satellite weighs just 64 grams (0.14 lb.) and will embark on a…
Stephen Hawking And 32 Top Physicists Just Signed A Heated Letter On The Universe’s Origin
By: Fiona Macdonald/Science Alert For centuries, people have puzzled over how our Universe began. But the heat just got turned way up on a debate that’s quietly been raging between cosmologists, with 33 of the world’s most famous physicists publishing a letter angrily defending one of the leading hypotheses we have for the origin of the Universe. The letter…
Italian Supervolcano Is Far Closer To Erupting Than Previously Thought
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Heads up, ladies and gentlemen – the Phlegraean Fields supervolcano, known in its native Italy as Campi Flegrei, is potentially on the edge of an eruption. A brand new modeling study has concluded that the prolonged period of unrest it’s going through has pushed the volcano closer to an eruption than…