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Asteroid 2023 BU: Space rock passes closer than some satellites
2 hours ago
About the size of a bus, the space rock whipped over the southern tip of South America.
Government green heating scheme off to slow start
8 hours ago
Take up of the Boiler Upgrade Scheme is lagging behind schedule
Earth will have 'a very close encounter' with an asteroid tonight, NASA says
8 hours ago
There's no reason for alarm - but, a NASA engineer calls it "one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded." It will be only 2,200 miles above the Earth's surface.
North Korea is under lockdown to fight the spread of a respiratory disease
10 hours ago
Authorities have made no mention of COVID. North Korea claimed victory over the disease by August, but experts remain skeptical of that claim. The lockdown will last from Wednesday until Sunday.
Why inventing a vaccine for AIDS is tougher than for COVID
12 hours ago
The 4-decades long effort to create an AIDS vaccine suffered a blow with news that a vaccine in a late stage trial was discontinued because results showed it to be ineffective. What are the obstacles?
15 wishes for 2023: Trailblazers tell how they'd make life on Earth a bit better
1 days ago
We asked for a wish from expert wishers around the globe - from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to MacArthur "genius" grantee Gregg Gonsalves to Melva Acostaa, who runs a soup kitchen in Peru.
Can these rocks really power light bulbs? No, say the experts
1 days ago
Viral videos of minerals with apparent electrical properties are not what they seem.
Elms: England greener farming payments detail unveiled
1 days ago
Landowners and farmers in England are told exactly what environmental work they will be paid for.
How ancient seeds from the Fertile Crescent could help save us from climate change
1 days ago
Some of the tens of thousands of seeds stored at a facility in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley may hold keys to helping the planet's food supply adapt to climate change. Many seeds were saved from Syria's war.
To reignite the joy of childhood, learn to live on 'toddler time'
1 days ago
The days might seem long, but the years go by quickly, friends warned when my son was born. I wanted to savor each precious memory, but how? Living on "toddler time," showed me the way.
Humans and wild apes share common language
2 days ago
Researchers believe that gestures used by great apes were an evolutionary "starting point" for our language.
Clouds part to reveal colossal Antarctic iceberg
2 days ago
The EU's Sentinel-2 satellite obtains a crystal clear image of Antarctica's new monster iceberg.
Webb telescope hunts life's icy chemical origins
2 days ago
The new super space telescope has been studying some of the darkest, coldest regions of space.
Encore: Agricultural research funding is down, impacting fight against climate change
2 days ago
Steep cuts in federal funds for agriculture research over the last 20 years threatens farming's fight against climate change.
UK museums ask for children to inspire action through art
2 days ago
Major artists including FKA Twigs will work with children across 500 museums to create wildlife artworks.
Encore: What makes that song swing? At last, physicists unravel a jazz mystery
3 days ago
Jazz musicians and scholars have long debated the question: What exactly is this thing called swing? Now physicists say they've cracked the secret.
Scientists find 17-pound meteorite in Antarctica
3 days ago
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Maria Valdes of Chicago's Field Museum about a fresh haul of meteorites she and other scientists collected in Antarctica.
Most Americans say overturning Roe was politically motivated, NPR/Ipsos poll finds
4 days ago
An NPR/Ipsos poll finds that most Americans say Supreme Court justices are guided more by their politics than the law, and that lawmakers aren't deciding abortion policy based on public sentiment.
Agricultural research funding has dropped, impacting the fight against climate change
4 days ago
Steep cuts in federal funds for agriculture research over the last 20 years threatens farming's fight against climate change.
A deadly disease is threatening honeybees, but a new vaccine could help
6 days ago
A first of its kind vaccine for honeybees is close to coming to market to fight a disease that currently means burning infected hives. It's a little extra help as bees try to deal with climate change.
Nearly 6-pound 'Toadzilla' found in Australia breaks the record for largest toad
6 days ago
Cane toads are notorious pests in Australia, colonizing habitats and poisoning other wildlife. Park rangers euthanized the 5.95-pound animal, whose body will be donated to the Queensland Museum.
Study shows heavy stones may give big leaps in water - plus real-world implications
7 days ago
Researchers have studied the physics behind heavy stones skipping across the surface of water. They say these findings could be applied to real-world problems like de-icing airplanes.
What makes that song swing? At last, physicists unravel a jazz mystery
8 days ago
For nearly a century, jazz musicians have debated what gives songs that propulsive, groovy feel that makes you want to move with the music. The secret may lie in subtle nuances in a soloist's timing.
Adorable Voles, Life as We Don't Know It and Better Cement
9 days ago
Love in the brain, how dreams predict disease and better words for climate change in this month’s issue of Scientific American
What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI
9 days ago
An AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek is definitely entertaining, but it also illustrates the crisis of misinformation beginning to befall us
Free Will Is Only an Illusion if You Are, Too
10 days ago
New research findings, combined with philosophy, suggest free will is real but may not operate in the ways people expect
The man who first discovered plastic in the ocean
12 days ago
In 1971 Edward Carpenter discovered plastic floating about in the Atlantic Ocean.
Exxon's Own Models Predicted Global Warming--It Ignored Them
12 days ago
Scientists working for the oil giant Exxon in the 1970s and 1980s estimated temperature increases with remarkable accuracy. Those findings could now be used as evidence in climate litigation
A Sustainable Economy Depends on Sustainable Materials
13 days ago
Scientists and manufacturers are charting a path toward material sustainability
Gene Drives Could Fight Malaria and Other Global Killers but Might Have Unintended Consequences
13 days ago
A new technology could wipe out whole species. Is it a magic bullet or a genetic atom bomb?
Research Summaries Written by AI Fool Scientists
13 days ago
Scientists cannot always differentiate between research abstracts generated by the AI ChatGPT and those written by humans
Ancient Americans Crossed Back into Siberia in a Two-Way Migration, New Evidence Shows
14 days ago
Scientists have long known that ancient people living in Siberia made their way into what is now North America. Mounting DNA evidence suggests migration also happened in the opposite direction
James Webb telescope traces arcs of dusty star formation
14 days ago
The new super space observatory probes a dynamic star factory 200,000 light years from Earth.
See the Largest Flower Ever Found Encased in Amber
14 days ago
A rare flower encased in amber is the largest one ever found and dates from around 40 million years ago
Oceans Break Heat Record for Fourth Year in a Row
14 days ago
The world’s oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, fueling sea-level rise and contributing to climate disasters
Leona Zacharias Helped Solve a Blindness Epidemic among Premature Babies. She Received Little Credit
14 days ago
In the first Lost Women of Science Shorts podcast, host Katie Hafner dives into the life and work of Leona Zacharias—a brilliant researcher who, before reporting this story, Hafner only knew as her grandmother
Half of the 250 Kids Expelled from Preschool Each Day Are Black Boys
14 days ago
Racism and overstressed teachers help explain high expulsion rates for Black preschool boys
A Recently Discovered Gas Cloud Near Andromeda Stumps Astronomers
14 days ago
Clues to the origin of this enormous cloud of gas have been maddeningly vague
Why California Is Being Deluged by Atmospheric Rivers
15 days ago
California has been hit by repeated storms fueled by torrents of moisture called atmospheric rivers that will only intensify in a warming climate
Scientists See Quantum Interference between Different Kinds of Particles for First Time
15 days ago
A newly discovered interaction related to quantum entanglement between dissimilar particles opens a new window into the nuclei of atoms
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