
Los Angeles Times - 19 hours 53 min ago
The California Department of Public Health has identified agricultural workers in the state who were exposed to measles during an outbreak in Arizona.

Popular Science - 22 hours 34 min ago
The type of siren you hear depends on where you live. The post Police sirens started with a 19th century French scientist appeared first on Popular Science .

Popular Science - 1 day 46 min ago
With the lab mice donations stopped, Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts is turning to social media. The post Wildlife center needs 31,725 frozen mice a year appeared first on Popular Science .

Mother Jones - 1 day 4 hours ago
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A decades-long debate over how to manage wilderness climbing may be nearing a close. Land-management agencies, including the US Forest Service and agencies within the Department of Interior, released draft guidance in mid-June on the use of permanent anchors basically […]...

Wired - 1 day 4 hours ago
From how galaxies form to the beginnings of the universe, the images from the space telescope are giving cosmologists new data to explore and theories to build out.

Wired - 1 day 5 hours ago
Everything you need to know about the solar eclipse and lunar eclipse that will occur in August 2026.

New York Times - 1 day 19 hours ago
A delivery in Wilmington, N.C., this month. Heat is linked to hundreds of workplace deaths each year, but labor groups say the true toll is unknown because heat-related illnesses are not properly tracked or reported.

Ars Technica - 1 day 21 hours ago
"We believe that a capture of Swift, an attempted capture of Swift, is very much in the cards."...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 22 hours ago
A 1.37-inch inscription could upend our understanding of the religion's spread.

Newser - 2 days 26 min ago
Dinosaurs may have met their end not over months or years, but in the span of a brutal afternoon. A new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences argues that the asteroid that hit Mexico's Yucat n 66 million years ago likely cooked much of the life on land within...

Popular Mechanics - 2 days 2 hours ago
How likely is it for extraterrestrials to visit Earth? Maybe the real question is: Are they already here?...

Mother Jones - 2 days 4 hours ago
This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ticks are taking over the United States. Due to climate change, changing land use, and an explosion in the deer population, ticks have been expanding their territory and infecting more people than ever. They carry pathogens that cause everything from Lyme disease […]...

Ars Technica - 2 days 5 hours ago
Tracking smells in turbulent air takes a keen sense of direction and sharp memory.

Retraction Watch - 2 days 5 hours ago
If 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 66,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: University and journal investigating gene-editing death; ADA must take accountability'; psychedelic therapy paper faces retraction...

Newser - 2 days 5 hours ago
Stonehenge, usually a backdrop for crowds and selfies, is offering something far rarer this August: 20 minutes inside the stone circle for one lucky ticket-holder per day. English Heritage says advance-ticket buyers will automatically be entered into a daily draw that will hand one winner "private time inside the prehistoric...

Wired - 2 days 6 hours ago
A discovery in a solar system 73 light-years from Earth is challenging definitions and "blurring the lines between stars, planets, and moons."...

Australian Geographic - 2 days 10 hours ago
A new tool has emerged to improve cyclone predictions: the humble sea turtle. The post Beneath the storm appeared first on Australian Geographic .