Flooding caused by heavy rainfall is a regular occurrence, it happens in many places on Earth is many times it is a consequence of climate change. Weather extremes are no longer limited to certain parts of the world: they’re now part of everyday life in Germany too. Deutsche Welle is telling us thst researchers from various disciplines are determined to fight climate change.

By the end of XXI (or the 21st if you want the Arabic numbers not the Roman numerals) century, humanity is becoming desperate because the climate is changing and the atmosphere is heating up and up whatever you believe it or not. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.

A digital scan of the Titanic has revealed new insight into the doomed liner's final hours, including how engineers kept the lights on until the last moment. I won't watch James Cameron's Titanic tonight after watching the BBC news video, but you can do it. Tell me, does the movie fully reproduce the moments?

Space itself is wobbly. We exist on a choppy sea, its surface roiled by disturbances caused by the movements of black holes hundreds of millions of light-years away. Some people may say that even electromagnetic waves like the light make the space to shiver, and the movement compresses the space, but that hasn't been proven yet. The detection of these 'gravitational waves' by observatories such as LIGO is a story of scientific persistence and precision engineering, resulting in a completely new way of looking at the cosmos.

Corona, AIDS and the Spanish flu have claimed many millions of lives and they are only the most recent plagues that took human lives. Now, researchers around the world are trying to better predict and prevent pandemics like these in the future. The idea is excellent especially when the vaccines will be customized, one for each person after detailed analyzes, not one formula for a few billion people like the case of codiv-19.

Last year I was glad to hear about the Japanese scientist who want out teeth to grow again (a third set) and tat they are preparing some medicine that should be ready in the next five years, now BBC is telling us that scientists from King's College London have managed to grow a tooth under laboratory conditions. That shouldn't be so bad, especially if these ideas are compatible. For the moment you should know that while this breakthrough is still a long way from filling in the gaps in anyone's mouth, researchers say it is filling in the gaps in research.

Dr. Hannah Ritchie is saying that “I think the key point is that doesn't mean game over. That doesn't mean we're flipped into a world, and to a point of no return.” One think is clear - it's not too late for the world to slow or even to reverse the climate change, similar things have happened before in Earth history, but for us it may be a little too late. Only time will take us that if this is so or if the humans species will continue living on this planet.

It's early in the morning over here, just a few minutes after midnight, but after a long day with some trips it's a great time to watch a lecture about Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Artificial Intelligence with Sir Demis Hassabis. On a visit to Cambridge in March 2025, Sir Demis Hassabis - who in 2024 became our first alumnus to receive a Nobel Prize - gave this talk on this lecture and Cambridge Computer Lab put it online.

You shouldn't watch the European Space Agency in the evening because you may not sleep well or not at all during the night. Why? Because there is a series of lakes beneath Thwaites Glacier, part of an extensive network of meltwater drainage channels. In the year 2013, seven subglacial lakes, that were more than 2 km beneath Thwaites Glacier, suddenly all drained at the same time, releasing around 7 cubic kilometres of freshwater into the Amundsen Sea.

Yup, another Gresham lecture, this one done by Professor Robin May, Gresham Professor of Physic a few days ago, in 26 of March 2025. What can I say? After a busy month one may relax learning new things or remembering old things with new details, so I need to ask how do vaccines work?

If you see a straight line between fishes and humans then you better think again. There can be a distinct line between us in evolution terms, but evolution is far away from linear. Seeing the tree of life, with all the relative species together, you will see that line mention before in new terms. We even have common genes with the tree because all the life on Earth is related in some way. Very different but related, and for one reason only: life want to continue and it will do everything it can to survive, so all the living creature will change themselves and their behavior to current environment in space and time, and the planet has changed a lot in the last billion years.

In an increasingly technological and virtual world, with social networks and more computer screens in front of our eyes instead of real persons faces, where our lives seem to become so distant from each other but also from the natural world, can we remember how we evolved to be the very socially intelligent and successful species we are today?

We already have some of the Star Trek tech, like smartphones and mobile phones in general, but most of the teh from the series and the movies we don't have it yet. And we may not have in the next 10 centuries, long after the Star Trek timeline.

People have strange ideas in strange times, and from time to time these ideas are pretty good. In this case BBC presents, during World War Two, psychologist B F Skinner tried to use pigeons to guide missiles towards enemy ships. His study proved it was possible, and it was finally recognised at the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize awards.

Not Data from Star Trek the Next Generation, that's another love story for the ages, it's just about data and a lecture recorded by Victoria Baines on 25th February 2025 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London. Victoria Baines is a Senior Research Associate of the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College, Cambridge, a Senior Research Fellow of the British Foreign Policy Group, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. She is also Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University’s School of Computing, a former Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University.

Climate change does not exist, right? The planet is not heating up, it's just the heat of the moment. Right? If you believe that bullshit how can you explain this? As part of a community effort, the Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise, Glambie, has compiled all major studies using observations from a wealth of different techniques to provide an estimate of the world’s glacier mass change over the last two decades. The conclusion is simple: glacier melt intensifying freshwater loss and accelerating sea-level rise.

We all have to deal with infection, people, animals and plants, because of bacteria, fungi and viruses. Even bacteria has to deal with infections from viruses and they developed a kind of defence used for CRISPR development. We all have to deal with infection but most of us rarely think about plant immunity.

People are kind of playing with DNA, because at some point they genetically engineered mice with woolly mammoth like hair. They want to know what they are doing and are creating new pets for the ageless children everywhere. And before thinking about the woolly mammoth you may want at least one or two mice, at least for a time, to play with them all day. What do you think about them?

From ice to fire: BBC is explaining us interesting things about the Science of Temperature while telling us how hot air ballons work. Since the first hot air balloon was invented in 1783, long before the heavier than air objects that are flying, the kit might have become slightly more sophisticated, but the simple science has remained largely the same.

If you already found out the Stone Age diet and what did our human ancestors eat you may already know that our human ancestors fundamentally changed their eating behavior in the Neolithic period and you may want to find out more information about how our species has changed in the last thousand years. A big change was when they began to cultivate cereals and domesticate wild animals because our ancestors did not have to make so much effort and to chew so much. This change happened quickly and had a decisive impact on the evolutionary history of mankind.