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Everyone has looked up at the clouds and seen faces, animals, objects. Human brains are hardwired for this kind of whimsy. But some people perhaps a surprising number look to the sky and see government plots and wicked deeds written there. Conspiracy theorists say that contrails long streaks of condensation left by aircraft are actually chemtrails, clouds of chemical or biological agents dumped on the unsuspecting public for nefarious purposes. Different motives are ascribed, from weather control...
A communications researcher lays out the dynamics of conspiracy theory belief and why they gain traction in times of anxiety and uncertainty.
A person in Washington is presumed infected with bird flu virus. Health officials in the state do not know the source.
Jeff Bezos's aerospace company Blue Origin is now the second, after SpaceX, to land a rocket booster for reuse.
Greenland's melt is expected to slow the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but research suggests a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet could in some cases prevent it from shutting down...
"This does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return."...
Retraction Watch - 1 day 7 hours agoElsevier is investigating a case report of a person with aggressive cancer, written by three plant researchers working far afield of their specialty. The three authors of the study, published June 2024 in Oral Oncology Reports, purport to diagnose a 63-year-old man with a rare, aggressive form of oral cancer. The journal is a companion … Continue reading Botanists plant a stake in oral cancer research with case report, now under investigation...
Sequencing an ancient creature's RNA opens up a new window into extinct life.
RNA, short for ribonucleic acid, is even more delicate than DNA...
Mice with the same genetic variant that contributes towards red hair in people were slower to recover from wounds than their black-haired counterparts...
The Leonid meteor shower viewed from North Macedonia in November 2020.
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation's space station Friday after more than a week's delay because a window in the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from being hit by space debris. The team left their Shenzhou-20 spacecraft in orbit and came back using the...
GLP-1s are being studied for a wide range of conditions. Now, scientists will test whether their anti-inflammatory properties can help alleviate symptoms of long Covid.
RNA from an exceptionally well preserved woolly mammoth gives us a window on gene activity in an animal that died nearly 40,000 years ago...
Some 39,000 years ago, a woolly mammoth died in present-day Siberia, destined to be blanketed by ice and permafrost that would end up preserving its body even down to the hair and muscle.
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Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National Museum in Prague...
The three returned home early Friday morning when the recently-launched Shenzhou-21 module touched down at 3:40 a.m. local at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
The equipment needed to keep the grid running is hard to make, and materials are limited. And supply-chain bottlenecks are taking years to clear.
A screengrab from the live feed of the Blue Origin launch showing the returned booster rocket on the floating platform Jacklyn in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Dogs developed stockier faces and shorter snouts shortly after the last Ice Age...
Australian Geographic - 1 day 21 hours agoIf not friend, why friend-shaped? The post Quolls have no business being that cute appeared first on Australian Geographic .
Nature - 2 days 1 hour agoData from the Nature Index reveal the top-performing science cities overall and across different subject areas.
Nature - 2 days 1 hour agoAs coastal populations surge, partnerships between inland and coastal researchers could be essential for climate adaption.
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