Harry Stevens

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Harry Stevens

In 1886, a French chemist dissolved holmium oxide in acid. Then, he added ammonia. Toiling over the marble slab of his fireplace, he repeated the procedure dozens of times. Finally, voilà: He'd extracted a new element. More than a century later, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran's painstaking discovery - which he named dysprosium, from the Greek for "hard to get" - is a crucial ingredient in the powerful magnets used in wind turbines and electric vehicle motors.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Harry Stevens

A man whose home was evacuated after a commercial building was destroyed in a fire says he felt "left in the dark" as he waited to return home. Several houses in Beauvale Road, in the Meadows area of Nottingham, were deemed unsafe after the fire at about 20:00 BST on Saturday.

1 week ago | telegraphindia.com | Catrin Einhorn |Harry Stevens

Insects play an outsize role in supporting life on Earth, they pollinate plants, break down dead matter nourishing the soil, feed birds and myriad other creatures in the food web Catrin Einhorn, Harry Stevens Published 14.04.25, 10:28 AM A groundbreaking new study offers the most comprehensive answers to date about the status of butterflies in the contiguous United States.

3 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Catrin Einhorn |Harry Stevens

NEW YORK - It’s hard to count insects. Even as scientists have found that many populations are in decline, they’ve struggled to understand the scale of what’s happening. Now, a groundbreaking new study offers the most comprehensive answers to date about the status of butterflies in the contiguous United States. In 20 years, the fleeting time it takes for a human baby to grow into a young adult, the country has lost 22 per cent of its butterflies, researchers found.

3 weeks ago | mahoningmatters.com | Catrin Einhorn |Harry Stevens

(Science Times)It’s hard to count insects. Even as scientists have found that many populations are in decline, they’ve struggled to understand the scale of what’s happening. Now, a groundbreaking new study offers the most comprehensive answers to date about the status of butterflies in the contiguous United States. In 20 years, the fleeting time it takes for a human baby to grow into a young adult, the country has lost 22% of its butterflies, researchers found.