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Manure from livestock releases nitrogen and phosphorus into many UK rivers, including the TillJim Gibson/Loop Images Ltd/Alamy THE rolling English…
In October 1962, the rules of engagement during the Cold War assumed particular urgency. Soviet nuclear warheads were in Cuba…
A small robot that can shape-shift and produce heat could incinerate cancer cells or stop bleeding from inside the body.…
The Evobits “farm” in Romania mines the Ethereum and Zilliqa cryptocurrenciesAkos Stiller/Bloomberg via Getty Images Quantum computers could be used…
CLIMATEWIRE | NASA wants to know more about climate-juiced hurricanes. To help with that effort, the space agency on Thursday night…
A satellite image of ice swirls in the Sea of Okhotsk captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite on May 28. The…
Visually striking layers of burnt orange, yellow, silver, brown and blue-tinged black are characteristic of banded iron formations, sedimentary rocks…
“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people…. I thought it was way off…. Obviously, I no…
A carved stone penis found buried in the rubble of a demolished medieval Spanish tower was likely used to sharpen…
Twelve years ago, a cycling accident left Gert-Jan Oskam, now 40, with paralysed legs and partially paralysed arms, after his…
Waves churn in Onomea Bay, Hawaii, where the sea rose by more than 30 feet (9 meters) during the deadly…
An artist’s interpretation of a pair of “Tatooine worlds” orbiting two suns. (Image credit: Mark A. Garlick/University of Warwick)For just…
Saturn’s largest moons. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Montage by Emily Lakdawalla / Processing by Processing by Ted Stryk, Gordan…
Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, is running for president of the United States on a record of anti-diversity, pro-censorship,…
In 2021, Facebook made “metaverse” the buzziest word on the web, rebranding itself as Meta and announcing a plan to…
Batting Performance by Position. Credit: Organization Science (2023). 10.1287/orsc.2023.1680 Venturing out of one’s comfort zone to perform a task—and then…
A conical frustum array. Credit: National Institute of Standards and Technology Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology…
Butterflies, bees, and even bats are celebrated as pollinators: creatures that travel from flower to flower to feed, and in…
Orcas swimming in the wake of a boat off the coast of SpainGovernment of Spain – Ministry of Transport, Mobility…
Scientists in Finland have developed a nanodevice that can measure the absolute power of microwave radiation down to the femtowatt…
[]The wreck of a British World War II submarine that helped usher in the era of special military operations has…
The Midwestern United States has lost 57.6 billion tons of topsoil due to farming practices over the past 160 years,…
A sculptor’s rendering of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis in an exhibition that included the 3.2 million-year-old fossilized remains of “Lucy.”…
FEW of life’s milestones are as unappealing and unceremonious as arrival in middle age. Our skin becomes noticeably looser, grey…
Editor’s Note (5/25/23): Today the U.S. Supreme Court released its ruling in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. The Court found…
SCIENTIFIC revelations come from the unlikeliest of places. Like a rat, in a lab, doing a “downward dog” stretch. According…
The rush in conservative states to ban abortion after the overturn of Roe v. Wade is resulting in a startling consequence that…
The mental distress of cognitive dissonance — encountering information that conflicts with how we act or what we believe –…
Greater mouse tailed bat- a major migrant in Israel. Credit: Jens Rydell For the first time ever, researchers can track…