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Best of Last Year: The top Phys.org articles of 2023
32+ min ago —...by Chan Zuckerberg with Biohub San Francisco Investigators announced... ...Over the summer, astrophysicist Rajendra Gupta, with the University... ...Corporation, GNS Science and Oregon State University reported evidence... ...Last winter, a team at the University of California San Diego, found...

New conductive, cotton-based fiber developed for smart textiles
57+ min ago —...Washington State University A single strand of fiber developed at... ...Washington State University has the flexibility of cotton and the... ...Liu as well as Zihui Zhao, Dan Liang, Wei-Hong Zhong and Jinwen... ...Washington State University textile researcher Hang Liu....

UN climate talks home in on fossil fuel deal
3+ hour, 21+ min ago —...Monday as negotiators seek to convince an increasingly isolated Saudi Arabia... ...With 24 hours to go before the official end of COP28 in Dubai, a... ...Jaber, the head of the national oil company of the United Arab Emirates... ...Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua recalled on Saturday that the United...

'Race against time': Climate talks in last push to end fossil fuels
3+ hour, 27+ min ago —...by Shaun TANDON, Laurent THOMET COP28 is due to end on Tuesday but... ...Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for "maximum ambition and... ...The United States, whose climate envoy John Kerry was celebrating... ...Jaber, the head of the national oil company of the United Arab Emirates...

Sour grapes: Japan battles to protect premium fruits
18+ hour, 34+ min ago —...by Natsuko Fukue with Holmes Chan in Hong Kong In the view of Japanese... ...by China and South Korea.... ...Shine Muscat grapes grown by China and South Korea that are nearly... ...and South Korea that are nearly the same as Shine Muscat grapes,...

'Urgency of action': pressure grows for COP28 climate deal
18+ hour, 47+ min ago —...Germany's chief negotiator Jennifer Morgan urged the United Arab... ...Emirates' COP28 presidency, led by state oil company CEO Sultan Al... ...United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged COP28 delegates... ...The International Energy Agency said non-binding pledges made by...

Billions have been raised to restore forests, with little success—here's the missing ingredient
19+ hour, 52+ min ago —...with little success—here's the missing ingredient by Dhanapal Govindarajulu... ...Since the third UN climate change summit, held in 1997 in Kyoto,... ...The work of one academic, Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom, can tell... ...Asia and Latin America live on land that has been identified as ripe...

Researchers thought they'd find 200 species of plants and animals living in their house and yard. They were very wrong...
22+ hour, 52+ min ago —...Holden, Andrew Rogers and Russell Q-Y Yong , The Conversation Credit... ..., a mathematician and a taxonomist—who were locked down together... ..., a suburb of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.... ...nothing extraordinary about our 400 square meter block of land in Annerley...

New investment labels aim to help savers spot sustainable products—but won't always stop greenwashing...
1+ day ago —...and Jean-Pascal Gond , The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public... ...The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) first sustainable investment... ...in France, Belgium, Austria, Luxembourg and the Nordic countries... ...minister of economic affairs, Bruno Lemaire, announced its label...

Climate 'tipping points' can be positive too—our report sets out how to engineer a domino effect of rapid changes...
1+ day ago —...Smith, Caroline Zimm and Tim Lenton , The Conversation Credit: Unsplash... ...sets out how to engineer a domino effect of rapid changes by Steven... ...Back in the late 1980s a-ha's lead singer Morten Harket and keyboardist... ...Røstvik, and environmentalist Frederic Hauge, and together they...