NPR: With or without a new treaty this month, the effort to curb climate change has accelerated since the 1997 Kyoto conference. Although the US never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, numerous efforts are under way in the US to limit warming by attacking the main culprit: burning fossil fuels. NPR takes a look at some of the technologies, as well as social mechanisms, aimed at changing how we consume energy—and slow climate change.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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