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In 2023, the world's oceans took up an enormous amount of excess heat, enough to "boil away billions of Olympic-sized swimming pools," according to an annual report published Thursday."Another way to think about this is 15 zettajoules is enough energy to boil away 2.3 billion Olympic-sized swimming pools." 

We ignored early warnings about climate change decades ago. Now, with July being the hottest month on record, the planet is shouting its final warnings.

Beam Me Up The Chinese military has announced what would, if true, be a major breakthrough in weapons tech. As the South China Morning Post reports, representatives from the country's National University of Defence Technology say they've developed a state-of-the-art cooling system that would allow high-energy lasers to remain powered up "infinitely" without getting too hot. […]

Temperatures rose above 100 degrees for the 20th time this summer in Boise, tying a record from 2003 when we also saw 20 days that hot.

Get latest articles and stories on Health at LatestLY. Fruit flies brains become desexualized as they get older, both male and female. Both sexes experience age-related changes, but the male brain becomes more feminized to a larger extent than the female brain becomes masculine. A study conducted by a research team at Linkoping University came to this conclusion. Health News | Ageing Neutralizes Sex Differences in the Brain: Study.

Get latest articles and stories on Health at LatestLY. An under-researched topic related to sleep among older workers is now better understood thanks to a recent study from the Universities of Eastern Finland and Turku. 2,771 Finnish municipal workers who were close to retirement were included in the study. Health News | Research: Sleep Issues in Older Employees Are Correlated with Mental Stress Factors.

Get latest articles and stories on Health at LatestLY. Based on the outcomes of a new study by the scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine by continuously sequencing many DNA strands found in patient samples, Next Generation Sequencing enables doctors to quickly and precisely identify a single pathogen from among hundreds of potential candidates. Health News | Genetic Testing is promising for Detecting Hundreds of Disease Agents: Study.

Using a city’s excess heat to reduce emissions