
Retraction Watch - 16 hours 58 min ago
An Elsevier journal on computer applications in biomedicine has retracted 13 papers including four by a former editor-in-chief for suspicious authorship changes and erroneous citations. The articles were published in Computers in Biology and Medicine from 2019 to 2023. The October 15 retraction notices list suspicious changes in authorship, irrelevant citations to the … Continue reading Computing journal retracts 13 papers, including four from past EIC...

Ars Technica - 19 hours 48 min ago
A new action plan aims to rescue 2030 nature targets as financing remains inadequate.

Newser - 20 hours 40 min ago
The notion that frozen visitors from space jump-started life on Earth just took a major hit. A new modeling study led by University of Cambridge researchers finds that when comets slam into our planet, the entry is so intense that key organic compounds are overwhelmingly destroyed making the comet-delivery theory...

Newser - 21 hours 2 min ago
NASA just let four "analog astronauts" out of a 3D-printed box after more than a year spent pretending they were on Mars. The CHAPEA crew mission commander Ross Elder, medical officer Ellen Ellis, science officer Matthew Montgomery, and flight engineer James Spicer spent 378 days inside a 1,700-square-foot habitat...

The Conversation - 21 hours 23 min ago
Your home's true flood risk is far more complex than FEMA flood maps reflect.

The Conversation - 21 hours 43 min ago
Galaxies act a little bit like figure skaters twirling on the ice but at an astronomical scale.

The Conversation - 21 hours 44 min ago
Handing your heirs a list of passwords is only the first step in ensuring they can access and manage your digital affairs after you die.

GeekSpin - 21 hours 44 min ago
If you think archaeologists need actual bones or teeth to uncover the secrets of ancient humans, you may have to check that thought because DNA testing has evolved more than you know. Scientists are getting astonishingly good at reading history straight from the ground beneath our feet, and a fascinating new breakthrough just proved we […] Read the original article here: Scientists recover 22,000-year-old human DNA from cave dirt...

Newser - 21 hours 56 min ago
Your name could hitch a ride to one of the solar system's most intriguing worlds. NASA is inviting the public to add their names to a microchip that will fly aboard Dragonfly, an eight-rotor drone slated to launch toward Saturn's moon Titan no earlier than July 2028 and arrive in...

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 1 hour ago
I went cross-country skiing on Saturday. It was my fifth ski day of the new season, which is a welcome change after last year’s abysmal snowfall. We have another storm underway and with any luck, we should have some packed trails this week. Saturday also happened to be Halloween. I think of Halloween skiing as […] The post My Favorite Halloween Tradition: Skiing! appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Australian Geographic - 1 day 8 hours ago
Filmed over three years in some of our planet's coldest, driest, windiest places, the new Australian landmark documentary series Ages of Ice captures earth's spectacular polar regions like never before. The post The making of Ages of Ice appeared first on Australian Geographic .

NPR - 1 day 21 hours ago
Four volunteers who lived and worked in a simulated NASA Mars mission for more than a year exited their habitat Saturday.

Mother Jones - 1 day 22 hours ago
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. By the time the three hikers called for help from a rocky face on Mount Shasta in Northern California, they'd made a series of bad decisions. They didn't bring enough food, and they'd overestimated their fitness. Instead of […]...

Wired - 2 days 15 min ago
Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.

Wired - 2 days 45 min ago
A dying star 1,600 light-years from Earth is surrounded by two rings of gas and dust that astronomers believe are the remnants of the planetary bodies it once hosted.