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Experts have a new theory about how 25-tonne sarsen stones were moved to Stonehenge, and have created an image to show it...
Climate activist Will Lawrence cofounded the Sunrise Movement. Now, he has shifted his focus in his attempt to compete for a swing-district seat by calling for a data center moratorium.
Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effects, which could enable a cyborg insect swarm to explore disaster zones and perhaps even Mars...
Fossil megalodon may have preyed on basking shark...
Last Word On Nothing - 11 hours 59 min agoAlmost every night since late February I’ve slept on our deck, watching the star-scape creep westward month by month. Scorpius recently came out of hiding and now the great space scorpion is standing on its tail in the middle of the southern sky. Jupiter has been sailing toward the evening glory of Venus, Power and […] The post Sleeping in Space appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
Retraction Watch - 13 hours 3 min agoFive months after he was fired by ministerial order, an Iraqi professor of physics at the center of a massive publishing scam submitted a manuscript to a Wiley chemistry journal claiming affiliation with Columbia University in New York City. The paper also stated the physicist, Oday A. Al-Owaedi, was affiliated with the University of Babylon … Continue reading Physicist in Iraq fired over publishing scam claims fake Columbia affiliation in new paper...
In today's newsletter: Last week's extreme weather should galvanise the political response to global heating. But the sad paradox is that it could bolster support for climate-sceptical parties Good morning. You could be forgiven for thinking that last week's heatwave in Europe would be a galvanising moment for action on the climate crisis. At one point, more than 150 million Europeans sweltered in temperatures above 35C (95F) with several parts of the continent soaring past 40C. A heatwave...
Australian Geographic - 15 hours 52 min agoDeadly snakes are an occupational hazard in the Aussie bush. The post How to survive a snake bite appeared first on Australian Geographic .
NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission, the AP reports. The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver. NASA hired startup Katalyst Space Technologies to boost the...
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Nature - 20 hours 3 min agoScience is a complex, interconnected, deeply human enterprise involving hard grind and funding cuts and grant delays have come as a sucker punch to many.
Nature - 20 hours 3 min agoDar o Gil knows that researchers are sceptical of the massive US artificial-intelligence push he's asking them to keep an open mind.
Nature - 20 hours 3 min agoSarah Weisberg is one of a number of scientists who have made the move to Europe for job security.
Space tourism hasn't exactly rocketed into the mainstream since Dennis Tito's $20 million jaunt to the International Space Station in 2001, but it has quietly grown up. Per the New York Times , roughly 140 paying passengers have now made it to space, most on quick "up-and-down" suborbital hops, even as...
For once, "there is no road" turned out to be exactly what archaeologists wanted to hear. A joint Slovenian-Mexican team says it has uncovered an untouched Maya city in the thick jungle of Mexico's Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, a site they've named Minanb Maya Yucatec for "there is no road" after...
Mother Jones - 1 day 8 hours agoThis story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, climate scientists have issued warnings about positive global warming feedbacks, vicious cycles in the Earth system in which rising temperatures from burning fossil fuels beget more warming. The best tools we have to understand these feedback mechanisms are […]...
The Euclid space telescope's stunning photo of our galaxy's "crowded heart" captures more than 60 million stars.
Mother Jones - 2 days 8 hours agoThis story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With Western Europe in the grip of a punishing early-summer heat wave, maximum health alerts have been issued in Rome, Paris, and even London. Thursday was the UK’s and Switzerland's hottest June day on record, with each just below 100 degrees […]...
Retraction Watch - 2 days 10 hours agoIf your week flew by we know ours did catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 65,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: A tsunami of misleading medical studies; retraction calls cancer therapy timing into question; a closer look at Max Planck's retractions...
The copious water needed to put out the Lineage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights over a week is now running into the LA River.
A newly described Australian ballista spider waiting to catch an ant in its snare.
Factors like the short interval between the two powerful quakes and different types of soil led to some structures collapsing while others stayed standing.
The NASA Swift space observatory is in danger of falling from space after 22 years, but a rescue mission with the help of a robot is set to launch on June 30. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz talks with Katalyst Space CEO Ghonhee Lee, the company partnering with NASA, about the historic mission.
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