
The Guardian - 2 hours 52 min ago
Lee Zeldin says low-volume release' of flammable chemicals is most likely amid fears of explosion at Orange county facility near Disneyland Government officials in Orange county, California , have warned that an overheated chemical tank "will fail" and could result in a chemical explosion in the area, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator said on Sunday. "We're being told that the tank will fail, but there are different scenarios as to what that means," Lee Zeldin...

New York Times - 5 hours 4 min ago
Rafe Pomerance. as president of the environmental group Friends of the Earth, in 1983. "He recruited us and energized us and gave us facts that allowed us to work on the most important issue of our time," said Daniel Becker, a longtime leader with the Sierra Club.

Popular Science - 5 hours 13 min ago
'Preferred sources' ensures you're seeing the news outlets you want to see. The post How to avoid garbage news on Google Search appeared first on Popular Science .

BBC - 5 hours 45 min ago
Data for animals, such as foxes, will be welcomed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust.

The Guardian - 7 hours 17 min ago
Mission will put first astronaut in orbit for a year, a key step in Beijing's plan to put people on the moon by 2030 China has launched its Shenzhou-23 mission in which an astronaut will spend a full year in orbit for the first time, a crucial step in Beijing's ambition to send humans to the moon by 2030. The Long March 2-F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan launch centre in north-western China on Sunday, carrying three astronauts to the Tiangong space station. Continue reading...

The Guardian - 7 hours 28 min ago
La Brea Tar Pits the only urban, active ice age excavation site in world gets a mammoth face lift for the first time in nearly 50 years Los Angeles is known for famous museum such as the Getty and the Lacma, but perhaps fewer people are aware that in the heart of the city lies a museum that contains one of the world's most remarkable fossil sites. The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum is home to the remains of more than 2 million ice age flora and fauna, including mastodons and saber-toothed cats...

Popular Science - 8 hours 7 min ago
Even though they are cute and fuzzy, remember to give wildlife room and use a zoom.' The post It's baby season at Yellowstone National Park appeared first on Popular Science .

Newser - 8 hours 38 min ago
A brainy riddle that's stumped mathematicians since World War II appears to have been cracked via artificial intelligence. OpenAI says one of its AI models has solved the "unit distance problem," a classic question in combinatorial geometry first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos in 1946, reports Interesting Engineering . Unlike...

BBC - 8 hours 54 min ago
The Wye has become the first river in the UK to have a charter covering it from source to sea.

IEEE Spectrum - 9 hours 28 min ago
It can be difficult to carry on conversation in a crowded public setting, and even more so with any degree of hearing loss. But what if you could amplify only the person you wanted to hear and suppress the rest ? What if a computer could do that automatically by reading your brain? When we focus on a particular person talking, we subconsciously track the gradual modulations in speech volume, which vary from speaker to speaker. This characteristic pattern appears in the brain activity of the listener...

Newser - 10 hours 6 min ago
China launched the Shenzhou 23 spacecraft Sunday night with three astronauts heading to its space station, including one scheduled to stay in space for a year. The spacecraft blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China in a much-anticipated launch as China prepares for its first crewed...

Popular Science - 10 hours 25 min ago
Stop smashing that 'Close Door' button. The post 3 buttons that don’t actually do anything appeared first on Popular Science .

Mother Jones - 10 hours 28 min ago
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Democrats and Republicans agree on virtually nothing at this point, except the desperate need to build more housing in the United States. Depending on your viewpoint, the country needs new domiciles because it puts people to work and stimulates local economies, or […]...

Ars Technica - 11 hours 12 min ago
The white whales join the short, contested list of animals that see themselves.

Science Alert - 11 hours 27 min ago
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Wired - 13 hours 28 min ago
Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.

Science Daily - 13 hours 39 min ago
Researchers found that adding bananas to berry smoothies can dramatically reduce the body's ability to absorb healthy flavanols. The surprising discovery shows that even simple food combinations can change how much nutrition your body actually gets.

Science Daily - 13 hours 53 min ago
Scientists have cracked open the "black box" of feline cancer in a landmark study that genetically analyzed nearly 500 cat tumors from around the world. The research uncovered striking similarities between cancers in cats, dogs, and humans including shared cancer-driving genes tied to aggressive breast cancers.

Wired - 13 hours 58 min ago
It's long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case.

Wired - 14 hours 28 min ago
There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren't quite supermassive either. There's finally evidence for where those came from.

New York Times - 1 day 2 hours ago
A jellyfish at the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Jellyfish play important roles in the marine ecosystem and are a key source of food for some fish and sea turtles.

Science Alert - 1 day 4 hours ago
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Ars Technica - 1 day 4 hours ago
SpaceX has more to prove before flying Starship all the way to low-Earth orbit.

New York Times - 1 day 5 hours ago
Sunrise at Starbase in South Texas on Friday, as the SpaceX Starship rocket was preparing for another launch attempt.