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After nearly 40 years of research, scientists have uncovered evidence that challenges a long held assumption about forest soils. The world’s longest running soil warming experiment suggests that even carbon once considered stable can begin to break down as temperatures rise, releasing additional CO2 into the atmosphere. Jerry Melillo, a Distinguished Scientist at the Marine…

India’s burgeoning deep-tech ecosystem is compelling venture capital (VC) firms to recalibrate investment timelines, as emerged from a recent Equirus InnovateX Fund press note. Unlike software firms, deep-tech startups demand extended development timeframes, primarily due to the necessity of technology validation, intellectual property creation, regulatory approvals, and manufacturing preparations before reaching commercial scalability. Since 2016,…

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Lee esta historia en español aquí.  NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant heating within the shallow subsurface of the most volcanically active world in the solar system. Collected during two close flybys, the data also shows that most of Io’s surface is…

Some 7,500 languages are spoken or signed around the world today. Though that might sound like a lot, the number could have been up to 10 times higher a few thousand years ago, researchers report July 23 in Science. “That was the golden age of linguistic diversity,” says Claire Bowern, a linguist at Yale University….