
The Atlantic - 1 day 9 hours ago
Two frog biologists were kidnapped in the woods. More bizarre situations may come.

Wired - 1 day 10 hours ago
How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.

Australian Geographic - 1 day 16 hours ago
Rafts of floating wetlands have been proven to slash greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment lagoons. The post Floating wetlands decrease wastewater emissions appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Retraction Watch - 1 day 22 hours ago
A journal has retracted a paper by two Italian scientists who claimed to have found hidden structures inside of the oldest and largest of the Pyramids of Giza. The study, published in Remote Sensing in October 2022, purportedly used synthetic aperture radar to penetrate the Pyramid of Khufu with energy pulses and process the echoes … Continue reading Journal retracts paper claiming network of corridors inside the Great Pyramid of Giza...

Ars Technica - 2 days 3 hours ago
Finding reveals an overlooked way that water can damage surfaces.

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 8 hours ago
In a display case on the lower level of the Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution in London, there's an unassuming stack of gray metal discs and blotting paper. It's not at all obvious that this humble object is the starting point of today's multibillion-dollar global battery industry. The object's invention in 1799 grew out of a disagreement that Alessandro Volta the Italian physicist for whom the unit of measurement for electrical potential is named had with his friend Luigi...

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 12 hours ago
And here we are enduring another wet blast of late summer’s hot breath, a last gasp before fall blows in. This imminent transition of seasons is always a thoughtful time for me, for many of us. Here’s how I was thinking about it a few years ago. Squirrels are comforted by birds' easy chit-chat, new […] The post Songs of Home appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .