
Los Angeles Times - 1 day 5 hours ago
The U.S. will begin to test kratom for its potential to treat opioid disorder. In California, a complaint targets a business accused of violating kratom restrictions.

Wired - 1 day 6 hours ago
A new report shows that government agencies failed to communicate and includes recommendations for stronger oversight in a bid to avert future disasters.

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 7 hours ago
In May, Doug Burgum, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, traveled to the tiny town of Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, to announce a new policy: caribou hunters will soon be allowed to use all-terrain vehicles inside the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. Under most circumstances this would piss me off another misguided plan from […] The post Trump Meets an Indigenous Movement appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

The Independent - 1 day 7 hours ago
Findings point to previously unknown earthquake hazard...

Wired - 1 day 8 hours ago
A London clinic owner has claimed he is treating people with stage 4 cancer by sealing them into a plastic bag while they're naked from the waist down and gassing them with chlorine dioxide.

BBC - 1 day 8 hours ago
The population of black poplar trees has dwindled to around 7,000 trees in the UK and Ireland.

NBC News - 1 day 11 hours ago
GJ 504b, the pink planet, is 57 light years away from Earth and now scientists at Northwestern University discovered it has a salty set of clouds surrounding it. Astrophysicist Aneesh Baburaj, who has been leading much of the research, talks with NBC News' Gadi Schwartz about the discovery and if the pink planet is even a planet after all.

Australian Geographic - 1 day 12 hours ago
From over 2000 entries, these 100 photographs have been shortlisted in this year's Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year (AGNPOTY) competition. The post 100 images make nature photography awards shortlist appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Mother Jones - 1 day 14 hours ago
The federal government intervened Monday in a Clean Air Act lawsuit in which people in Memphis, Tennessee, and Southaven, Mississippi, are suing Elon Musk's xAI over the health risks posed by the company's unpermitted gas turbines. The Department of Justice didn't intervene on behalf of the people breathing dirty air, though: instead, it submitted an […]...

Ars Technica - 1 day 14 hours ago
"I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this."...

Nature - 1 day 15 hours ago
Species in the Heliconius genus are among the longest-lived butterflies, thanks to a diet of pollen.

Nature - 1 day 15 hours ago
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Nature - 1 day 15 hours ago
Two people were the first to receive the therapy for a condition that damages the spinal cord and optic nerve.

Retraction Watch - 1 day 17 hours ago
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s letter demanding answers from a journal that recently retracted an article about vaccines has drawn significant attention. But the inquiry isn't the first time Kennedy has used his platform to try to influence retraction decisions, with one critic calling out a pattern by Kennedy of "politicizing" the process. Scholars say Kennedy, … Continue reading RFK Jr. has various stances on retractions. Critics say he's politicizing' them...

New Scientist - 1 day 20 hours ago
Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a larval stage with external gills like modern frogs or salamanders...

New Scientist - 1 day 20 hours ago
An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of Japan to move 5 millimetres to the east...

Smithsonian - 1 day 20 hours ago
The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early animals did not use metamorphosis to evolve to dwell on land...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 22 hours ago
A new nanopatterned structure based on sub-wavelength physics has proved its value in a real-world setting, and it could qualify for use in outer space. The device, integrated with one of the world's most advanced solar observatories, captured pictures of the Sun's magnetic field in a new, advantageous way: via a single snapshot with no moving parts. The demonstration , published 10 June in Science Advances, offers a promising tool for astronomy, consumer electronics , quantum optics, and...

GeekSpin - 1 day 23 hours ago
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been hunting gamma-ray bursts from orbit since 2004. But atmospheric drag is now pulling it downward, and without intervention, it will burn up later this year. In response, NASA turned to a small Arizona startup, Katalyst Space Technologies, about nine months ago, awarding roughly $30 million to build and […] Read the original article here: NASA is racing to save a telescope before it falls to Earth...

Newser - 2 days 47 min ago
Southern California's most infamous faults are carrying more strain than they have in a millennium, scientists say. A new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth finds that the San Andreas and San Jacinto systems are in a "critically loaded" state, with stress on several segments now matching...

Newser - 2 days 2 hours ago
A major ocean data network just got an eleventh-hour reprieve. Facing rare, unanimous resistance in the Senate, the Trump administration has shelved a plan to tear down a $368 million system of buoys, sensors, and cables that tracks everything from coastal flooding to marine heat waves, reports the New York...

GeekSpin - 2 days 4 hours ago
A Chinese rocket has disintegrated in orbit in a dramatic failure that occurred alarmingly close to SpaceX's Starlink satellite network, adding yet another layer of concern to the increasingly crowded environment above Earth. The breakup has not been linked to an immediate collision, but its proximity to active satellites has quickly drawn attention from space […] Read the original article here: Chinese rocket breaks apart in space dangerously close to Starlink...

Retraction Watch - 2 days 5 hours ago
Retracted scientific papers cited on Wikipedia tend to linger on the popular website for years, according to a study examining nearly 1,200 citations. The study's authors, led by Ph.D. candidate Haohan Shi from the Media, Technology, and Society Program at Northwestern University, used the Retraction Watch Database to compile a list of retracted papers and … Continue reading Some Wikipedia citations to retracted papers persist for years, study finds...

Australian Geographic - 2 days 13 hours ago
In 1976, the first Vietnamese boat people' reached Australian shores. The post 50 years ago the first Vietnam war refugees reached Australia's shores appeared first on Australian Geographic .