
Los Angeles Times - 1 day 1 hour ago
An offering memorandum described the destroyed mobile home park as a "blank canvas for redevelopment"; however, city officials reiterated they intend to let fire survivors return and rebuild.

The Conversation - 1 day 1 hour ago
Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.

Newser - 1 day 4 hours ago
Winter isn't done with the US, but you wouldn't know it from next week's forecast. Meteorologists say a surge of unusually warm air will send temperatures 20 to 30 degrees above normal for more than 100 million people across the central, eastern, and southern states, with highs in the 70s...

Mother Jones - 1 day 7 hours ago
Children were starting to stream out of Peres Elementary School in Richmond, California, as activist Katt Ramos pointed towards a plume of smoke in the distance. Ramos is an activist who, at the time, helped to lead the Richmond chapter of Communities for a Better Environment. She was standing outside of the school in the […]...

GeekSpin - 1 day 8 hours ago
Antarctica's frozen frontier is retreating, and the scale is far greater than many realize. Over the last several years, thousands of square miles of grounded ice have vanished from the continent's outer edges, subtly redrawing the map of the southernmost continent. Scientists say this isn't just a distant polar problem; it's a shift that could […] Read the original article here: Antarctica has lost 5000 square miles of critical ice...

Financial Times - 1 day 20 hours ago
Researchers find people who take GLP-1s are less prone to substance use disorders...

Wired - 1 day 22 hours ago
"Data centers they need some PR help,"President Donald Trump said at the event.

Retraction Watch - 1 day 23 hours ago
PLOS One has retracted two papers from the Comet Research Group, a controversial cadre of researchers who, according to their webpage, seek "to find evidence about comet impacts and raise awareness about them before your city is next." The same research group was also behind a September 2021 paper published in Scientific Reports and … Continue reading Controversial comet theory struck by two new retractions...

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 53 min ago
Cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, are on the rise in parts of California. It typically causes mild, cold-like symptoms, but could lead to more-severe disease in vulnerable individuals.

Wired - 2 days 1 hour ago
The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world's fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

Huffington Post - 2 days 2 hours ago
Research found that participants who were experts in this pastime showed "differences in both brain structure and brain activity."...

GeekSpin - 2 days 3 hours ago
Following a major agency-wide overhaul recently announced at the Kennedy Space Center, NASA plans to launch four Artemis missions before the end of President Donald Trump's current term. If the schedule holds, astronauts could return to the lunar surface as soon as 2028, something that hasn't happened since Apollo 17 in 1972. NASA Administrator Jared […] Read the original article here: Trump orders NASA to return to the moon by 2028...

Financial Times - 2 days 4 hours ago
Measurements of actual global levels show big impact of climate change, especially in Asia, study shows...

The Atlantic - 2 days 5 hours ago
Why did a group of 15 skiers take a risky route on a dangerous day?...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 7 hours ago
Lab-grown cell therapies for diabetes are edging toward the clinic . Researchers can now coax stem cells to behave like pancreatic islets, the tiny clusters of cells that regulate blood sugar. But even the most promising candidate therapies still need months inside a patient's body to fully mature and work reliably and some never quite get there. Now researchers have found a way to watch and even gently steer that maturation in the lab. A team led by Harvard bioengineer Jia Liu and University...

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 7 hours ago
In which Emily undergoes a trial which will stand her in good stead (what does that phrase even mean? can you stand in steads? what’s a stead? are some steads good and some bad?) when undergoing future trials. This first ran January 3, 2019. "This is a nightmare," I said to my boyfriend as we […] The post Ice Skating: an Overanalysis appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Smithsonian - 2 days 7 hours ago
Brazil's Pantanal region has the highest jaguar density on Earth, drawing camera-toting visitors to its riverbanks. Despite overtourism concerns, one enclave may offer a model for how to protect the charismatic apex predator...

Australian Geographic - 2 days 17 hours ago
In many parts of Europe, the common carp is a prized table fish. But it's is arguably Australia's most vilified fish. The post Carp: The fish scorned by Australians but once adored by monks and kings appeared first on Australian Geographic .