
The Conversation - 11 hours 7 min ago
When floods, heat waves and other climate disasters cost companies money, the results can shape their willingness to invest there in the future.

Popular Mechanics - 11 hours 19 min ago
Many theories about consciousness ask how it works, but a new study tries to pin down an equally important question: Where is it located?...

GeekSpin - 12 hours 49 min ago
Space continues to keep its best secrets hidden in plain sight, and astronomers have just stumbled upon one of its most baffling mysteries yet. Deep in a distant star system, researchers have detected a completely invisible object whose unusual mass and wide orbit have challenged thousands of computer simulations, making it difficult to fit into […] Read the original article here: Scientists find mysterious invisible object in deep space...

Newser - 13 hours 21 min ago
A western Kansas zoo just got a rare addition that zookeepers hope will help pull a species back from the brink. The Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City announced Tuesday that a female addax antelope calf was born Oct. 3 to parents Sahara and Dobby, their second offspring after a...

New York Times - 14 hours 49 min ago
Tilling a field in anticipation of the seasonal rains in Namasoko, a village in the Phalombe district in southern Malawi.

Wired - 16 hours 49 min ago
These Arctic currents have never broken down so early in the season. Combined with an unprecedented El Ni o, the outcomes aren't easy to predict.

NBC News - 22 hours 32 min ago
Inside K2 Space, two brothers are building massive satellites powered by glowing krypton plasma, with ambitions ranging from orbital data centers to hundreds of missions to Mars and beyond.

GeekSpin - 23 hours 48 min ago
For decades, the search for Noah's Ark has drawn explorers and researchers to a mysterious boat-shaped formation in the mountains of eastern Turkey. Now, a discovery is adding another intriguing twist to the long-running mystery: wood fragments that bear marks resembling those left by axes and knives, suggesting they may have been shaped by human […] Read the original article here: Noah's Ark search uncovers wood shaped by human hands...

Nature - 1 day 49 min ago
The Bundibugyo virus strain was circulating for weeks before its detection in May, but was missed owing to surveillance failures, testing gaps and funding cuts, researchers say.

Nature - 1 day 49 min ago
Insights into the reproductive modes of brown algae could help in the fight to protect them in warming climate.

Nature - 1 day 49 min ago
A Florida fungus might combine the psychedelic compound psilocybin with deadly chemicals to defend itself against hungry animals.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 1 hour ago
'Dead to Me' star Christina Applegate ventures a guess at what might be causing her symptoms that led to her MS misdiagnosis: poisoning.

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 1 hour ago
Almost ten years ago, I rented an Airbnb in Beirut from a young American lawyer named Samantha, who had recently moved there from D.C. She mostly stayed at her boyfriend's apartment, leaving me alone in her tiny place in Achrafieh, but she made me feel welcome, inviting me along on evenings with her friends. I […] The post How do you keep going? appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

New York Times - 1 day 3 hours ago
Members of a hazardous materials team outside a post office in Ewing. N.J., in October 2001, after a worker at the facility contracted anthrax.

Ars Technica - 1 day 4 hours ago
"What's unique is it's got a huge dynamic range. We can see things in full dark."...

The Conversation - 1 day 5 hours ago
Researchers found that everyone in a 100,000 sample of people has at least one genetic variant that interacts with common prescriptions.

Retraction Watch - 1 day 6 hours ago
PubPeer launched a new look on Nov. 9, including a dashboard showing the post-publication peer review platform has surpassed a half million comments in its 14 years of operation. Also among the newly public statistics: 20,784 papers had comments on PubPeer before they were retracted, with a median of 10 months between the first comment … Continue reading Do PubPeer comments make a difference? A small study tried to find out...

Ars Technica - 1 day 8 hours ago
The company plans on linking two 520-qubit chips before next year is over.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 13 hours ago
This article is brought to you by Innomotics . In the annals of industrial history, few innovations have demonstrated such remarkable staying power as the dynamo-electric principle. Discovered by Werner von Siemens in 1866, this groundbreaking principle remains fundamental to modern electrical engineering more than a century and a half later and continues to shape the technology portfolio of Innomotics , a globally leading provider of electric motors and large drive systems. What began as a breakthrough...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 13 hours ago
As HHS loosens peptide restrictions, advocates and entrepreneurs embrace unproven compounds despite researchers' warnings...

Science Daily - 1 day 20 hours ago
A surprising new weapon against microbes linked to head and neck cancer could be as simple as chewing gum. Scientists developed a bioengineered gum that reduced HPV levels by up to 93% in oral samples from cancer patients and nearly eliminated two harmful bacterial species after a single dose of its extract. Even more promising, the treatment spared beneficial bacteria in the mouth.