
PBS Newshour - 1 day 1 hour ago
America has an epidemic of gun violence that claims over 120 people every day. The country has debated what to do about this for years, but little has changed. Horizons moderator William Brangham explores gun safety and public health with Dr. Sandy McKay and Dr. Joseph Sakran, two experts with prevention ideas they argue every American can get behind. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Retraction Watch - 1 day 3 hours ago
A Wiley journal has corrected a retraction notice to clarify the author, a Princeton student, never conducted the study in the first place, as the student has gained publicity for visits to the offices of Texas Congressional delegation. The paper, by Rishika Porandla, purportedly described a new way to break down polyvinyl chloride plastic by mixing … Continue reading Journal updates retraction notice as Princeton student author stays in the spotlight...

The Conversation - 1 day 4 hours ago
The shadow population of deceased relatives is more than three times as large as today's living population.

Ars Technica - 1 day 4 hours ago
Space Force considering options: public-private, federal installation, state land.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 5 hours ago
The actress is one of thousands misdiagnosed every year but a new biomarker could change everything.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 6 hours ago
New simulations reveal the one option left when warning time runs out and it's nuclear.

The Conversation - 1 day 6 hours ago
A cybersecurity researcher explains how a flaw in widespread software makes millions of websites vulnerable to hackers and underscores the role of AI in attacking and defending the internet.

New York Times - 1 day 6 hours ago
After peaking at 26 percent in 2021, the percentage of ninth-grade girls identifying as bisexual dropped in 2025 to 13 percent, according to recent federal data.

New York Times - 1 day 7 hours ago
Chimp friendships are largely initiated by grooming. They are "popping pimples; they're looking at little scabs; they're scratching things," Dr. Lewis said, behaviors that release bonding hormones like oxytocin.

Mother Jones - 1 day 7 hours ago
In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web. The discreet banner notice comes in stark contrast to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin's recent […]...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 14 hours ago
California clean-air officials said they were disappointed by Los Angeles Times reporting on the state's Clean Bus and Truck Voucher Project.

Wired - 1 day 15 hours ago
The cloud has baffled astronomers since its discovery in 2018. Now, a new study offers a possible cause for its appearance.

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 15 hours ago
My wife and I were hiking up a pain in the ass desert canyon the other day, hand over hand between bus-sized boulders, no trail to follow, when she said she was done and sat in the shade. She said feel free to poke ahead and when I did, within eyesight of her I found […] The post Life Keeps Walking appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Science Daily - 1 day 17 hours ago
MIT engineers have built a paper-thin swimming robot powered by living muscle cells that respond to flashes of light, allowing it to swim and steer through water. The breakthrough could pave the way for tiny, self-healing biological robots capable of exploring fragile environments that ordinary machines cannot safely navigate.

Australian Geographic - 1 day 17 hours ago
Ancient seafloors, rich opal fields and 50,000 years of human history inland South Australia runs deeper than you imagined. The post Beneath the surface appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 22 hours ago
Public health officials in San Francisco reported a death associated with MGM-15, a lab-created and modified form of 7-OH.

Nature - 2 days 3 min ago
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Nature - 2 days 3 min ago
Long-awaited results from phase III trial show a huge benefit in treating treatment-resistant melanoma.

Nature - 2 days 3 min ago
Fighting fit.

PBS Newshour - 2 days 1 hour ago
When actor Christina Applegate revealed that she had been misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, it triggered not only an outpouring of empathy for her, but raised important questions about how often people are told they have the condition when they don't. William Brangham discussed why MS can be so difficult to diagnose with Dr. Michael Kornberg of Johns Hopkins University. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

GeekSpin - 2 days 2 hours ago
NASA is sending a rover to investigate a hole on the Moon. The target is a pit in the Marius Hills region on the Moon’s near side, an area with a history of volcanic activity. NASA suspects the hole could be an opening into an underground lava tube. Here is all we know about the […] Read the original article here: NASA plans mission to explore suspicious deep hole on the Moon...

Retraction Watch - 2 days 3 hours ago
Over 10,000 peer-reviewed papers from two publishers breach journal policies about past collaborations between handling editors and authors, a new analysis has found. The work presented October 15 at the 26th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Frisco, Texas examined how often research studies published by journals run by the Public Library … Continue reading Thousands of research studies violate journal policies on collaborations between editors and authors...