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For most of us, to see a truly starry night isn't easy. I have been writing about dark skies and light pollution for almost 20 years. And I have seen some breathtaking skies southern Morocco at the edge of the desert so plush with stars it still seems like a dream, the Racetrack in Death Valley with stars rising in the east and dropping off the edge of the world in the west. At other times when I've gone to see the sky, I found too much humidity in the air, or too many clouds, or the obscuring...
The evidence is far older than better-known examples from ancient Egypt and South America...
AI tools including Perplexity and Open AI's GPT-4 often provide one-sided answers to contentious questions, and don't back up their arguments with reliable sources...
Popular Mechanics - 21 hours 9 min agoResearchers who examined data from Perseverance found that the rocks contained organics that could have been the precursors to life.
Retraction Watch - 21 hours 31 min agoStarting around 2023, a curious trend took hold in papers on drug safety monitoring. The number of articles published on an individual drug and its link to specific adverse events went from a steady increase to a huge spike. The data source in most of those articles was largely the same: The FDA Adverse Events … Continue reading Exclusive: Journal bans drug safety database papers as they flood the literature...
When a corpse flower bloomed on campus, atmospheric scientists got to work. What they discovered provides new evidence about the unique pollination strategies of a very unusual flower.
STEM jobs ranging from software engineer to physicist, to plumber tend to be well paid. And women tend to be underrepresented in these fields. New research suggests one reason starts in kids' homes.
A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn't form as researchers previously thought it did.
Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were previously too close together to look like anything but a blob...
Mother Jones - 22 hours 39 min agoThis story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ontario is backing a $100-million investment to build North America's first battery-grade cobalt refinery, aimed at supporting the country's electric vehicle production at a time when the industry is struggling with slowing sales and a deepening trade war with the US. Led […]...
Beneath the hills of rural Albania, archaeologists have uncovered the country's first Roman-era tomb, possibly belonging to a wealthy family, shedding new light on ancient life in the Balkans. The mausoleum, dating back to the third or fourth century CE, was unearthed near Strikcan, close to the North Macedonian border,...
A gas crater on the Yamal Peninsula in northern Russia in August 2014.
Ten thousand years before ancient Egyptians began mummifying their dead, hunter-gatherers in Asia were smoke-drying the bodies of loved ones, a discovery that is rewriting the history of human mummification. Scientists have uncovered what they believe to be the oldest evidence of human mummification specifically, smoke-dried mummies in parts of...
Calf mortality is always high among orcas...
Once again, an endangered orca in Washington state has been seen carrying her dead newborn calf in an apparent effort to revive it, the AP reports. Researchers with the Center for Whale Research, SeaDoc Society, and San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance said they received reports on Friday that the whale ...
Australian Geographic - 1 day 8 hours agoA federal government climate risk assessment has revealed a hotter, harder future if we don't act now. The post Is the latest climate report Australia's final wake-up call? appeared first on Australian Geographic .
20% of properties were still contaminated with lead after debris clean-up, the County found.
Nature - 1 day 10 hours agoAn insightful book explores attacks on science from a historical and a personal perspective.
Nature - 1 day 10 hours agoSpecialist machine-learning models are helping researchers to transcribe centuries-old handwritten records.
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PBS Newshour - 1 day 11 hours agoThe Annie E. Casey Foundation is perhaps best known for its work helping America's youth. Lisa Lawson, the president and CEO, has done extensive research into the development of teenagers. She joined Geoff Bennett to discuss her new book, "Thrive: How the Science of the Adolescent Brain Helps Us Imagine a Better Future for All Children." PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
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For more than a century, the humble fruit fly has paved the way for many critical scientific breakthroughs.
The Russell Smith Federal Courthouse in Missoula, Mont., where arguments will be made.
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