
BBC - 1 day 11 hours ago
The Kentish milkwort has seen a seven-fold increase since conservation efforts in 2013.

PBS Newshour - 1 day 18 hours ago
Roughly one in ten Americans gets their water from the Colorado River. But a worsening drought, driven in part by climate change, is drying up the river, and states are fighting over water rights. Horizons moderator William Brangham explores what that means for communities and industries that depend on that water with Luke Runyon, Wade Crowfoot and Joel Ferry. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 20 hours ago
A breakthrough study found that a hallucinogenic compound best known for altering the mind has surprising rejuvenating effects across the body.

New York Times - 1 day 20 hours ago
The J.H. Campbell coal-burning power plant in West Olive, Mich. The state is challenging a Trump order to keep the aging plant active.

Ars Technica - 1 day 21 hours ago
Each year, some of the power solar could have produced is blocked by aerosols.

Ars Technica - 1 day 22 hours ago
Instead of running silent and deep, most satellites easily stand out against the blackness of space.

The Independent - 1 day 23 hours ago
55-year-old man who recovered from hantavirus infection still had virus in his semen 71 months later...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 23 hours ago
Experts believe the nearly 60,000-year-old tooth shows signs of being drilled' with a stone point tool.

Popular Mechanics - 2 days 11 min ago
"I was just amazed and excited."...

BBC - 2 days 2 hours ago
Signs warning people not to swim are in place at almost all of England's official inland river bathing sites due to concerns the water could be unsafe...

Newser - 2 days 3 hours ago
An adolescent owl that was found stuck in a concrete mixer in southwestern Utah is finally flying free, the AP reports. After being released, the owl hovered for a moment while the aviary roof was retracted, gained speed, and then flew out into the wild. "It feels so, so good,...

New York Times - 2 days 4 hours ago
The black bear is the most common species in Canada, though bear attacks are rare.

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 4 hours ago
Editor's note: If you'd like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a gloomy stretch of desert in the Jornada del Muerto basin in New Mexico. Emily Seyl's Trinity: An Illustrated History of the World's First Atomic Test (The University of Chicago Press) offers hundreds...

The Conversation - 2 days 5 hours ago
Cytospora canker damages peach trees and decreases orchard production over time.

The Conversation - 2 days 5 hours ago
Large language models can uphold falsehoods they or human users state, despite being presented with evidence to the contrary.

Smithsonian - 2 days 6 hours ago
Researchers are tracing the brain and body's response to aesthetic expression in search of a scientific value to art...

GeekSpin - 2 days 6 hours ago
A few decades ago, Earth's orbit was considered vast and empty, but today, it is rapidly becoming one of the most congested places humans have ever reached. New analysis suggests that nearly half of all tracked objects circling the planet are actually defunct satellites, rocket fragments, and other space junk, a figure driven upward by […] Read the original article here: Nearly half of everything in Earth's orbit is now space junk...

New Scientist - 2 days 7 hours ago
CAR T-cell therapy has been hugely successful in treating certain types of tumours, and stiffening up cancer cells beforehand could make it even more effective...

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 9 hours ago
Have you noticed Mar-a-Lago face popping up in pop culture? It's freaky. Certain conservative women and billionaires' second wives people who started out looking perfectly fine now have puffy lips, exaggerated cheeks, and eyes that look perpetually surprised. I finally figured out what they remind me of: marionettes. They look like marionettes. With control-me, make-me-dance strings definitely […] The post What’s Truly Beautiful appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Science Daily - 2 days 10 hours ago
Scientists have uncovered a surprising dark side to vitamin B2: it may help cancer cells stay alive. The vitamin supports a cellular shield that protects tumors from ferroptosis, a form of programmed cell death linked to cancer suppression. In lab tests, researchers used a vitamin B2-like compound called roseoflavin to break down that protection and trigger cancer cell death.

Australian Geographic - 2 days 11 hours ago
Juvenile (effectively teenage) satin bowerbirds are sneaky little thieves. They'll steal the kitchen sink if it's not bolted down! The post Beware the ‘bowerbird boys’ appeared first on Australian Geographic .

GeekSpin - 2 days 16 hours ago
Next Tuesday could mark one of the most important moments yet in the future of space travel as SpaceX prepares to launch the newest version of Starship, the giant spacecraft designed to carry humans back to the Moon and eventually all the way to Mars. But this won't just be another routine test flight. From […] Read the original article here: SpaceX’s massive new Moon spaceship is finally launching next Tuesday...

Nature - 2 days 17 hours ago
A survey of more than 300 mouse strains has found widespread discrepancies between how mutant mice are reported and their actual genetic make-up.

Nature - 2 days 17 hours ago
Brandon Brown sees parallels between life as an academic and tending a citrus grove following his move to the country.