139 articles from MONDAY 15.8.2022

Many in US doubt their own impact on climate

Americans are less concerned now about how climate change might impact them personally—and about how their personal choices affect the climate—than they were three years ago, a new poll shows, even as a wide majority still believe climate change is happening.

Researchers change blood type of kidney in transplant breakthrough

University of Cambridge team’s work could significantly increase supply of organs for people with rarer blood typesResearchers have successfully altered the blood type of three donor kidneys in a gamechanging discovery that could significantly improve the chances of patients waiting for a transplant finding a match.The development could increase the supply of kidneys available for transplant,...

Humans have totally altered small mammal communities in just a few centuries

Researchers have found that small mammal communities today are fundamentally different from even a few centuries ago, during North America's pre-colonial past. They identified small mammal remains from the Anthropocene and archaeological Holocene along a geographical area with varying degrees of human impact and examined diversity across these sites and time periods. Optimistically, the...

Starwatch: Saturn makes its closest approach to Earth of the year

Earth undertakes the ringed planet every 378 days, passing directly between it and the sunThe beautiful ringed planet Saturn has arrived at its closest approach to Earth of the year.On 14 August, Saturn is 8.86 astronomical units from Earth. An astronomical unit is the radius of Earth’s orbit around the sun. Equal to roughly 150m km, that places Saturn 1.3bn km away currently. Travelling at an...