AGP Executive Report
Last update: 5 hours agoSpace & Earth Systems: A new study warns Mars terraforming is far beyond current engineering, with huge mass, heat, oxygen and energy needs; meanwhile, WMO’s IMO Prize goes to meteorologist Florence Rabier for advancing numerical weather prediction and operational services. Climate & Disasters: Researchers propose “weather jiu-jitsu,” using carefully timed atmospheric tweaks to shift hurricanes or soften extreme cold, based on simulations. Tech & Computing: IBM unveils a record-density prototype chip packing ~100B transistors via a 3D stacking approach; separate reporting highlights renewed scientific skepticism around Microsoft’s quantum roadmap after a Nature critique. Biomed & Health: IIT Kanpur maps how immune receptor C5aR2 works; gut-driven immune triggers for multiple sclerosis move closer to explanation; and Merck’s planned $11.3B acquisition of Bio-Techne signals more consolidation in life-science tools. Environment & Discovery: Scientists report Earth’s oldest known impact crater (~3 billion years old) and a massive 400-year-old black coral in New Zealand; AI helps “read” ancient Herculaneum scrolls without unrolling them. Science in Society: China’s mobile science outreach has reached hundreds of millions, and a Canadian hospital cut staff turnover by connecting existing wellness efforts rather than adding new programs.
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