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The frozen River Thames is being hit by cold winds, the Mersey docks are blocked by ice floes, and crops are failing in the UK. Meanwhile,…
The aftermath of Hurricane Milton continues to impact the state, with top priorities being power restoration, debris clearing, and fuel distribution. Over 1.5 million people are…
Have you ever wondered why moon dust is so sticky? It’s all because of static cling, the same phenomenon that causes thin clothes to stick to…
A rip current is essentially a strong current that flows through channels between sandbars and pulls the shore apart. It can reach speeds of up to…
The brightest comet of the year, Comet A3, will be visible for the last time in a century this weekend. This weekend marks its brightest appearance,…
When a new opening credits sequence was needed for Doctor Who, NASA provided a surprising new look at Comet A3, currently flying close to Earth at…
Archaeologists excavating Tam Parin (Monkey Cave) in northeastern Laos have discovered some of the earliest fossil evidence homo sapiens Presence in mainland Southeast Asia. Excavation survey…
The newly discovered isotope plutonium-227 has a half-life of 0.78 seconds, according to a team of Chinese physicists. Areas 87≤Z≤97 and 112≤N≤136 in the nuclear map…
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital was damaged by Hurricane Milton earlier this week. Dark Shad/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Children’s hospitals that lost access to water in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton are now using devices that can collect potable water directly from the air, and such atmospheric water collection systems are being used to respond
Paleontologists say they have identified a new species of marine reptile in the ophthalmosaurid family Platypterygius. It lived about 125 million years ago. a pair of…
overviewHurricane Milton’s tornado outbreak in Florida was the leading cause of death and damage from the storm. On Wednesday, South Florida experienced one of the strongest…
Andrea Vidaure, winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize, shared that her efforts to enhance air quality in California are deeply rooted in her own personal experience.Raised…
genus citrus refers to a group of flowering shrubs or treesLiv Frith Larsen / Alamy This is an excerpt from Our Human Story, a newsletter about…
Are you a cat person or a dog person? Lea Michelle Baines and Jessica Leigh Oliva from Australia’s James Cook University said they found that people…
Ducks receiving influenza vaccination on a farm in France in November 2023Shutterstock/Leitenberger photo Modeling studies show that hundreds of cases of H5N1 avian influenza would have…
Endometriosis tissue seen under a microscope Bio Photo Associates/Science Photo Library Low levels of certain compounds in your feces may be a sign of endometriosis, and…
The spider giant viper uses its unique lure to trick birds into coming closer. Matthijs Kuypers/Alamy book of genes of the dead richard dawkins (Yale University…
Reconstruction of male and female Neanderthals based on fossils from La Chapelle-aux-Saints S. Entresangle/E. Daines/Science Photo Library extracted from creation lake Written by Rachel Kushnerby Jonathan…
British Indian Ocean Territory or Chagos Islands CPA Media Pte Ltd / Alamy The UK decision is return control of the Chagos Islands The impact on…
Tesla CyberCab has no steering wheel or pedals tesla At a glitzy event held at Warner Bros. Studios Burbank in California, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled…
SpaceX’s Starship rocket before its first test flight in 2023 space x SpaceX has been preparing Starship since August for its fifth test flight, which the…
Arctic: Area included in the Arctic Circle. The edges of that circle are defined as the northernmost point where the sun is visible on the northern…
A stunning geomagnetic storm created an incredible display of lights across the United States on Thursday evening, illuminating the sky all the way down to San…
Various methods have been attempted to combat aging, but without breakthroughs in anti-aging drugs, scientists are focusing on lifestyle changes, particularly diet. A recent study suggests…
Viruses collected in a Northwestern University-led study are bacteriophages — a type of virus that infects and replicates inside of bacteria. The average American spends 93%…
In a new study, astronomers compared high-resolution images of Uranus from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope with more distant views from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. Their…
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of sauropod dinosaur from a semi-articulated specimen discovered in northern Wyoming in the 1990s. rebuilding the life of…
Thursday evening will bring a stunning display of the aurora borealis, thanks to a powerful eruption from the sun. This colorful sky show may be visible…
Hurricane Milton dumped so much rain on parts of Florida’s Tampa Bay area that it was classified as a once-in-1,000-year rainfall event. The government said 18.31…
This fluorescence technology can accurately measure tiny distancesSteffen J. Sahl / Max Planck Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences The smallest “ruler” ever made is accurate enough to…
Life as we know it is mostly composed of elements such as carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen. Although these elements were common in the environment 4 billion…
“The first robot pets were based on cats and dogs, but later dragons and Ewoks became popular.”Westend61/Anna Huber/Getty Images There are times in our evolutionary history…
Comet C/2023 A3 seen from the Canary Islands on September 30th (Tochinzan-ATLAS)Carlos de Saa/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Earth is approaching the comet and possibly passing through its ion tail,…
There are probably many more earthworm species than are officially recognized.Andia / Alamy There are likely tens of thousands of species of earthworms crawling in the…
Over the past few years, remarkable advances have been made in treatments for previously incurable diseases. Most relevant to me is the approval of lecanemab for…
being sick Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton (Reaktion Books) When endocrinologist David Rabin was diagnosed with an incurable neurodegenerative disease in 1979, he knew full well the pain that was coming. What he didn’t expect was the reaction from his fellow doctors at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Tennessee, who were so uncomfortable with
Cells found inside ancient rocks, whose DNA is stained with a green fluorescent dyeY. Suzuki, SJ Webb, M. Kouduka et al. 2024/ Microbial ecology Microbes have…
AI may increasingly contribute to scientific discoveries Yuichiro Kayano/Getty Images It’s often said that artificial intelligence will take all our jobs, and now it looks like…