
The Independent - 27 min 2 sec ago
From The Thing to The Last of Us, dozens of sci-fi classics have warned us about this moment but did we listen?...

Popular Mechanics - 45 min 23 sec ago
Researchers shot lasers into brain cells and triggered illusions on demand a breakthrough that's rewriting how we see the world.

Ars Technica - 48 min 49 sec ago
"We fully intend to recover the New Glenn first stage on this next launch."...

Discover Magazine - 1 hour 16 min ago
Once cut off from the seas and dried into a salt desert, the Red Sea was reborn 6.2 million years ago by a massive flood that carved its modern shape and restored life to its waters.

Discover Magazine - 1 hour 26 min ago
Learn more about the benefits of the gut microbiome and what you can do to keep these beneficial organisms thriving.

Discover Magazine - 1 hour 36 min ago
Roll up your sleeves and get ready for your shot. Learn more about immunotherapy injections — a long-standing, long-term treatment that's available for some forms of allergies.

Retraction Watch - 1 hour 52 min ago
We don't know if it's the fastest retraction ever, but the speed is nonetheless notable: A journal retracted a paper 22 hours after a sleuth raised concerns about the article. On August 9 just before noon, John Loadsman, an anesthesiologist and journal editor in Australia, reached out to two journals to notify them of image … Continue reading Journal issues speedy retraction in less than a day for inadvertent mistake'...

Popular Science - 2 hours 36 min ago
HD cameras beam panoramic images inside. The post Luxury jet replaces cabin windows with video screens appeared first on Popular Science .

New Scientist - 4 hours 5 min ago
AI tools are being used to design proteins and even viruses, leading to fears these could eventually be used to evade bioweapon controls...

Popular Science - 4 hours 45 min ago
A study of over 5,000 teens found a strong connection between childhood stress and dental anxiety. The post Extreme fear of the dentist linked to childhood trauma appeared first on Popular Science .

New York Times - 5 hours 6 min ago
The Canyon fire in Hasley Canyon, Calif., in August. Disastrous blazes increased more than fourfold from 1980 to 2023, according to a new paper in the journal Science.

New York Times - 5 hours 6 min ago
An artist's concept of a brown dwarf, in one of whose clouds scientists have detected traces of the molecule phosphine.

Science Alert - 5 hours 6 min ago
"It's definitely a puzzle!"...

The Guardian - 5 hours 33 min ago
Kemi Badenoch's plan to scrap the Climate Change Act is reckless. Ed Miliband offers a bolder, fairer vision. The future must be built on renewables Let's scrap Britain's successful climate law so we can burn more gas, lose investment and have higher bills. Crazy as it might seem, that is the message of Kemi Badenoch's new energy strategy . The Conservative leader proposes to repeal the 2008 Climate Change Act in favour of a plan to "maximise oil and gas extraction", and...

Ars Technica - 5 hours 35 min ago
Who needs peer review? Plan offers easier grants to schools that agree to limits.

NBC News - 5 hours 50 min ago
More than 1,000 silver and gold coins collectively valued at about $1 million were recovered from an 18th-century shipwreck off the coast of Florida, a shipwreck salvage company said on Tuesday...

IEEE Spectrum - 6 hours 6 min ago
Taiwan failed to pass an August referendum on whether or not a nuclear plant should be restarted, if it were deemed safe to operate. While the more than 4 million votes for "yes" outnumbered the more than 1.5 million "no" votes, the number of affirmative votes failed to surpass the 25 percent threshold of eligible voters also required for the referendum to pass. As a result, Taiwan remains on the nuclear-free path it has followed since the shutdown of the nuclear plant in question...

Ars Technica - 6 hours 21 min ago
Goodall's immersive studies of chimpanzees in Africa redefined what it means to be human.

The Atlantic - 6 hours 26 min ago
She knew how to wield her fame to protect the animals she loved.

UPI - 7 hours 2 min ago
The Paranal Observatory, one of the world's most important, faces a major risk of providing clear images because of a proposed green hydrogen and ammonia plant...

IEEE Spectrum - 7 hours 6 min ago
Engineers are masters of scale . They harness energy from the sun, wind, rivers, atoms, and ores. They manipulate electrons, photons, and crystals to compute and communicate. They devise instruments that detect perturbations in the fabric of space-time . And they grapple with challenges anticipated or not that are presented by the scale of the problem they are trying to solve. The articles in this issue describe engineers who think about, interact with, and create things at very precise and often...

BBC - 7 hours 6 min ago
Scientists have made early-stage human embryos using skin cell DNA fertilised with sperm...

Popular Science - 8 hours 3 min ago
Training and wearing the same material in bulletproof vests are key. The post The safest way to use a chainsaw, according to science appeared first on Popular Science .

The Guardian - 8 hours 5 min ago
Photographer Jem Cresswell spent five years documenting the southern hemisphere's humpback whales in the waters surrounding the Tonga Trench for his new book Giants , out now Continue reading...