Science News and Headlines
Science News and Headlines
World leaders and climate ministers will be invited to a series of pre‑COP31 events across the Pacific, with Fiji hosting the official pre‑COP meeting in early October and a special leaders’ component in Tuvalu. Australia will supply operational and logistical support, while Palau will convene a Pacific Islands Forum gathering in August focused on renewables and ocean‑climate resilience. The itinerary aims to showcase the existential threat faced by low‑lying islands and to generate fresh emission‑reduction and adaptation pledges ahead of the Antalya COP31 summit in November.
EMBL‑EBI has launched BioAIrepo, a dedicated repository that makes life‑science machine‑learning models FAIR—findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. The pilot catalogue aggregates imaging and genomics models from the BioImage Model Zoo and Kipoi, providing code, weights, training data and citation metadata....
The Guardian explains that the Sun functions as a colossal nuclear fusion reactor that produces not only heat and light but also intense acoustic energy. At its core, solar reactions generate sound levels exceeding 100 decibels, comparable to a rock‑concert...
The UN’s Article 6.4 carbon market has issued its first credits, approving 60,000 carbon units from a clean‑cooking project in Myanmar. The programme, originally launched under the CDM, distributes efficient cookstoves that reduce firewood use and associated deforestation. South Korean firms...
Rare Disease Day marked its 11th anniversary, highlighting the stark disparity between the 8,000 known rare‑disease genes and the under 500 approved therapies. Hosted by the Broad Institute’s Ladders to Cures Accelerator and the Termeer Institute, the event featured leading...
Two massive cold boxes built by Linde have been lowered into the new service tunnels of the High‑Luminosity LHC, near the ATLAS and CMS experiments. These units form the core of the upgraded refrigeration system that will cool the next‑generation...
The CERN accelerator complex is moving toward full LHC operation as beam commissioning progresses across the injector chain. The SPS has finished its first week of commissioning and entered a scrubbing run to condition vacuum surfaces for the high‑intensity beams...
