A climate change of heart?

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A climate change of heart?

Global warming is “undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today”. Not a surprising statement? Well, perhaps you’d look again, knowing that these are the words of one of the world’s best-known climate sceptics. Bjørn Lomborg (pictured) is a statistician at the Copenhagen Business School and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming. He has argued that climate change is a problem, but it’s often massively exaggerated. He has also widely criticised policies attempting to stop the problem. But, in an interview with the Guardian yesterday, Lomborg appears to make  … Read more

Recipe for a supermassive black hole

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While simulating what happens when two galaxies merge, an astrophysics team cooked up something unexpected: a supermassive black hole forming directly from the collapse of a dense cloud of gas. Their model, presented today in Nature, offers a new explanation of how the objects form.

NIH investigates health impacts of Gulf oil spill

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH), along with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), has announced a large-scale, $10 million, study to investigate the health effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.