
The Guardian - 16 hours 4 min ago
Up to 300mm of rain could fall in places, while extreme downpours bring deadly landslides to Nepal Torrential rain and potentially damaging flooding are forecast in eastern Spain over the coming days, as cold upper air moves over the warm, humid surface air of the Mediterranean Sea, fuelling violent, slow-moving thunderstorms near Spain's east coast. The weather pattern, known as a Dana, occurs most often in autumn. Models show more than 100mm of rain could fall across the region on Friday,...

The Guardian - 18 hours 2 min ago
This week's best wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...

Nature - 1 day 1 hour ago
A tricky question.

Nature - 1 day 1 hour ago
Take Nature's quiz on female Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry or physiology or medicine.

Nature - 1 day 1 hour ago
Hernan Diaz talks to Nature about his new novel Ply...

PBS Newshour - 1 day 2 hours ago
In our news wrap Thursday, the Supreme Court agreed to review the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy for migrants, UK police arrested a British-Iranian citizen on suspicion of planning a terror attack following a security incident at an air base and a Russian drone slammed into a school in Kyiv as the capital endured yet another day of aerial attacks. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 3 hours ago
Congress members from both parties pushed to get back a service removed by the administrator last year...

Australian Geographic - 1 day 3 hours ago
Boobies have a reputation for being pretty goofy. But the brown booby is a very serious bird. The post Don't let the name fool you brown boobies are dead serious appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Australian Geographic - 1 day 4 hours ago
An ancient turtle species faces a very modern crisis competing with another native but locally-introduced turtle. The post Two native turtles competing to survive in one river appeared first on Australian Geographic .

New York Times - 1 day 4 hours ago
Marika Holland's work has revealed that ecosystems are at risk because sea ice is declining.

Retraction Watch - 1 day 5 hours ago
When Dorothy Bishop was asked to review a paper for a small neuroscience journal in August, she could tell from the abstract the authors had used a dataset she had first published four years ago on the public repository OpenNeuro. The dataset contained raw functional MRI scans from 50 participants, taken while they completed language-related … Continue reading When open data are misused...

New York Times - 1 day 5 hours ago
A renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been plagued with problems.

Newser - 1 day 5 hours ago
Four astronauts rocketed into orbit Thursday on a space station mission that will stretch until spring, among them a Canadian whose wife will give birth while he's away. SpaceX launched commander Jessica Watkins and her crew for NASA after a three-week delay to fix the capsule's leaking fuel system. Thick...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 5 hours ago
A second satellite, launched Thursday, will double California's chances of detecting climate-changing methane releases.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 7 hours ago
Astra rebuilt the Germans' secret letter grid, then found a date error historians can't explain.

NBC News - 1 day 7 hours ago
Meet Phantom, the robot Foundation Future Industries says could be one of the first humanoid robot soldiers. The Eric Trump-backed company already has $24 million in contracts with the Pentagon to develop humanoids for defense. Foundation's CEO Sankaet Pathak speaks to Tom Llamas.

NBC News - 1 day 7 hours ago
The NASA and SpaceX Crew-13 mission launched successfully from Cape Canaveral, Florida, toward the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney are joined by Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov and CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk.

GeekSpin - 1 day 7 hours ago
Scientists have identified a new species of penguin, the first to be named in more than 100 years. The bird, called the southeastern gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis kerguelensis), lives on the Kerguelen and Heard Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. It was recognized as a separate species after an international team of 22 researchers, led from […] Read the original article here: Scientists discover first new penguin species in 100 years...

GeekSpin - 1 day 11 hours ago
Astronomers may have found an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a star far hotter than the Sun, though they put the chance that it exists at only slightly better than even. The star, HD 156295, lies about 140 light-years from Earth. Its surface temperature reaches roughly 13,500 degrees Fahrenheit, compared with about 9,900 10,000 F […] Read the original article here: Possible habitable planet found where life shouldn’t exist...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 11 hours ago
Consciousness may not come from intelligence at all but from a struggle machines will never know.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 12 hours ago
Divers had just 12 days to rescue 60 artifacts from the Baltic silt. One of still has them stumped.

The Conversation - 1 day 12 hours ago
The stories of a whale, a panther and a butterfly help explain why new interpretations of the Endangered Species Act could be catastrophic for species' survival.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 13 hours ago
It's disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid networks. Th is leaking of electricity happens when it vanishes as heat as w ell as whe n it is pilfered by thieves and nonpaying customers. More than half of the countries that track these metrics lost at least 10 percent of the ir electricity in 2023, according to the World Bank. Losses topped 20 percent for 24 of those nations. Two countries lost more than half of what they generated . With...