
Wired - 1 day 9 hours ago
The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were launched during the Covid-19 pandemic. The group lost its funding under Trump in part due to conspiracy theories.

Wired - 1 day 10 hours ago
Meet the wet bulb globe temperature, the ominous measure that shows when it's too hot to go outside.

Science Daily - 1 day 15 hours ago
A casual walk through an Ithaca cemetery led to the discovery of a gigantic hidden bee population roughly 5.5 million ground-nesting bees packed beneath the soil. Scientists believe it may be one of the largest bee aggregations ever documented and say the insects are crucial pollinators for apple orchards and other crops. The bees have likely lived there for more than 100 years, thriving in the cemetery's undisturbed sandy soil.

Australian Geographic - 1 day 20 hours ago
The discovery of human bones on Western Australia's Rottnest Island has brought fresh attention to the holiday destination's brutal past. The post Unearthed human remains reveal uncomfortable past of holiday island appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Retraction Watch - 1 day 21 hours ago
With an h-index of 75, computer scientist Thippa Reddy Gadekallu ranks among the world’s most highly cited researchers. But the speed and means of his ascent to those lofty heights of scholarship has been as remarkable as the achievement itself. In less than a decade, Gadekallu, a professor at Zhejiang A&F University in China, has … Continue reading A researcher's unusually high h-index gives a window into an expansive citation network...

Huffington Post - 2 days 3 hours ago
Study co-author John Allen, a meteorology professor at Central Michigan University, is concerned "because we're not really building our environment to be resilient to hail."...

GeekSpin - 2 days 8 hours ago
For the first time since the Apollo era, NASA isn't just looking to visit the Moon it's preparing to move in. A bold new roadmap recently unveiled by the agency details a phased approach to building a permanent lunar home, shifting our status from celestial tourists to long-term residents by the 2030s. From the […] Read the original article here: NASA reveals plan for astronauts to live on the Moon in the 2030s...

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 9 hours ago
A new study finds no evidence that antidepressant medications cause autism.

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 11 hours ago
In April, the sun started rising early enough so that I started walking or running near dawn. Each time I returned, there were people gathered underneath the same cluster of eucalyptus trees in the park and I didn't ask why. I mean, I wondered why, but people do strange things sometimes. Then, a few weeks […] The post Branching appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .