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- Skeptics visit the poster-child of severely bleached reefs, and it’s just fine 18 months later… Sat, 9 Dec 23, 6:00amBy Jo Nova 18 months ago the coral on John Brewer Reef was dead according to The Guardian, but Jennifer Marohasy, Peter Ridd and Rowan Dean took the risk of going back to the same dead reef to make a short documentary on...
- Artificial meat could make 25 times more CO2 than real beef Sat, 13 May 23, 6:21amBy Jo Nova It turns out that replicating a cow in a laboratory is not as simple as expected. A new study points at some very major and potentially very hard to solve problems with laboratory meat. We can scale up bacteria...
- Imagine there was a cheap way to save 2,000 people and cool cities but it didn’t make anyone rich? Thu, 2 Feb 23, 5:20amBy Jo Nova A new paper estimates that if we increased our tree canopy in cities to 30% we could cool our cities by nearly half a degree. Works better than a windmill…
- Blockbuster: Fingerprint genetic evidence strongly suggests Covid was bio-engineered Sat, 22 Oct 22, 9:11pmBy Jo Nova Why-O-Why has this taken so long? Finally we have a paper assessing SARS2 as if it might have been an engineered product from a laboratory. We now know it almost certainly was a lab product and we can name the...
- Stop That Now! Climate change helps aggressive mangrove forests build bigger tropical islands Tue, 11 Jan 22, 6:01amThe oceans were supposed to be swallowing up the islands
- New Olympic Rules means medals for men and people-who-used-to-be-men Fri, 26 Nov 21, 6:54amFollow the science, eh? Bad news for athletes born as baby girls – unless they start testosterone therapy straight away, it’s hard to see how they can win against babies with 18 years of DIY hormone “treatments”...
- Nine o’clock horror: Climate change causes shape shifting animals Thu, 9 Sep 21, 3:26am… It’s a new horror to scare the kiddies: Animals ‘shape-shifting’ as climate warms: study Paris: Some animals are “shape-shifting” and have developed bigger tails, beaks and ears to regulate their body...
- China took Manufacturing, then Tech and the West gave them away. Now it’s come for biotech… Thu, 22 Apr 21, 3:46amChina has become the Wild West of bio-research The Z man spots a repeat cycle of knowledge-hauls as China siphons off Western intellectual property, often with the help of the West...
- John Legend and Natalie Portman want you to try wearing fungus instead of leather Wed, 18 Nov 20, 3:01amNatalie Portman and John Legend are joining a group of venture capitalists and unnamed fashion brands backing MycoWorks, a company that just raised $45 million to commercialize its technology that makes a fungal-based biomaterial...
- Koalas extinct? Hardly. “Nearly everything you have read or heard about koalas is wrong” Fri, 3 Jul 20, 5:34amSince Europeans arrived Koalas have been booming and busting The calls were out this week saying that koalas will be extinct in New South Wales in 30 years...
- Koalas extinct? Hardly. “Nearly everything you have read or heard about koalas, is wrong” Fri, 3 Jul 20, 5:34amSince Europeans arrived Koalas have been booming and busting The calls were out this week saying that koalas will be extinct in New South Wales in 30 years...
- Rimbin concept offers a look into the future of infection-free playgrounds Tue, 2 Jun 20, 4:30amBerlin-based inventors Martin Binder and Claudio Rimmele believe that parents shouldn’t have to make the choice whether or not to let their children enjoy a playground in a world changed by COVID-19...
- David Attenborough’s reputation was last seen falling off a cliff Wed, 4 Sep 19, 4:57amAttenborough turned a natural phenomenon into an advert for the Climate-scare industry. As Benny Pieser at GWPF points out Falling Walruses were turned into the new posterboy of climate change, “It would be...
- Peter Ridd: The Great Barrier Reef has about the same amount of coral as in 1985 Sun, 23 Jun 19, 12:51amThe IPA team interview Peter Ridd about the Barrier Reef, coral bleaching, his story, and the state of free speech at universities (it’s non-existent)...
- “Surprise” Climate change, 900ppm CO2, acidification is good news for squid Mon, 17 Jun 19, 8:07pmSquid, “surprise” are going to do well with climate change. (If only it was going to happen). In the new post-CO2 world, corn and soy may become weeds, but squid may take over the oceans: Squid will survive and...