The Ocean Is Doing More Work Than the Models Assumed
Most excess heat and a large share of emitted carbon has gone into the sea. What happens if that slows is the open question.
Tag: research
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Sleep Research: Which Findings Actually Hold Up
A field with enormous popular attention and uneven evidence. Separating the well established from the widely repeated.
Lab-Made Cells and What They Are For
Building cells from designed components rather than modifying existing ones opens a different set of questions.
The Antibiotic Pipeline Is Broken for Economic Reasons
Resistance grows while development stalls. The obstacle is not scientific difficulty but that new antibiotics are bad businesses.
Long-Term Financial Hardship Shows Up in the Brain Decades Later
A long-running study links persistent money stress in early adulthood to measurable differences in thinking skills by the fifties.
Weight Loss Does Not Immediately Reset the Body
Research suggests some immune cells retain a molecular signature of previous obesity for years after weight is lost.
The Microbiome: Real Science, Overstated Products
The bacteria in the gut matter for health in ways that are genuinely established. The supplement industry has run far ahead of the evidence.
Longevity Research: What Is Real and What Is Marketing
Enormous money is flowing into extending healthy lifespan. Some of the science is solid. Most of the products are not.
Fusion Power: What Actually Changed and What Did Not
Net energy gain was achieved in a laboratory. The distance from there to a power station is larger than the coverage suggested.
Weather Forecasting Made a Leap Nobody Outside the Field Noticed
Machine learning models now match or beat physics-based forecasts at a fraction of the computational cost.