
Ars Technica - 13 hours 58 min ago
Practices shifted from individuals buried in coffins to reusing sites for later mummy interments.

GeekSpin - 17 hours 20 min ago
What if the moon could become more than a bright object in the night sky, but a place where people actually live and work? Voyager Technologies CEO Dylan Taylor believes that future could arrive sooner than you might think, predicting that moon bases could be up and running in the early 2030s. From lunar mining […] Read the original article here: Space CEO says humans will live on the Moon by 2030s...

Australian Geographic - 17 hours 37 min ago
Footage captured in Queensland's Great Sandy Marine Park shows a bottle nose dolphin calf learning to 'shell' by watching its mother. The post Dolphin mothers teach calves to fish using shells appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Nature - 17 hours 59 min ago
Robotic supports were once designed for clinical use, but researchers are now developing cheaper, smaller devices aimed at everyone from people with ageing knees to 20-somethings seeking to climb mountains.

Nature - 17 hours 59 min ago
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Nature - 17 hours 59 min ago
Building on the region's oil infrastructure, investment funds and shipping corridors, Gulf nations can thrive in the clean-energy economy.

PBS Newshour - 19 hours 24 min ago
At a time when the impact of climate change is undeniable, some researchers suggest we need to start work on far more ambitious approaches for tackling these problems. These proposals are often referred to as geoengineering. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien looks at one such concept to deal with the melting of glaciers and sea ice. It's for our series, Tipping Point. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Wired - 20 hours 30 min ago
This year's El Ni o is shaping up to be the strongest on record. This is what impacts to expect and how bad it could get.

New York Times - 20 hours 59 min ago
The Glen Canyon Dam near Lake Powell in Nevada last month. Lakes Powell and Mead, the country's largest reservoirs, have been recording new lows this summer.

Retraction Watch - 22 hours 34 min ago
In recent weeks Sage has retracted batches of articles published in two journals it acquired from IOS Press in 2023. In each case, the retractions were for manipulation of, and concerns about, peer review. The first tranche of papers was retracted July 15 from Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS) and constituted 43 papers, … Continue reading Sage issues dozens of retractions from two journals it acquired...

Science Alert - 1 day 4 hours ago
"It shows that molecular material can survive in an environment dominated by intense radiation." ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.

The Conversation - 1 day 5 hours ago
Moving servers into the ocean does not make underlying environmental challenges disappear. And it creates new concerns as well.

The Conversation - 1 day 5 hours ago
Mobile phones have become part of just about everyone's emergency infrastructure. But what do you do when the power and service go out?...

Newser - 1 day 5 hours ago
Anthropic's math-whiz AI got its own version of a locker-room pep talk and it seems to have mattered. In the Wall Street Journal , science columnist Ben Cohen recounts how Anthropic engineer Jarred Sumner asked Claude to revisit the famously unproven Riemann hypothesis . When Claude got stuck, Sumner who makes clear...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 7 hours ago
Green hydrogen has gone bust in California, with project cancellations, ongoing fuel disruptions and station build-outs at a standstill.

Wired - 1 day 7 hours ago
El Ni o coupled with Saharan dust is making this year's hurricane season a dud. But there's still potential for dangerous storms.

Wired - 1 day 8 hours ago
Researchers found that a metabolite produced by gut bacteria can weaken the barrier that protects the brain and promote changes associated with the cognitive disease.

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 9 hours ago
Debunking Hollywood is LWON's very occasional series that takes a hard science look at common TV and movie tropes. This instalment originally appeared in August 2017. Nothing says interstellar travel like a hibernation pod. The heroes of the 2016 holiday blockbuster Passengers, played by Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, embark on a century-long journey to an planet […] The post Debunking Hollywood: Human Hibernation appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Australian Geographic - 1 day 13 hours ago
Researchers from The University of Sydney have released 104 bush rats into two bushland areas in northern Sydney, as part of an ambitious urban rewilding project. The post Native rats returned to bushland in Sydney rewilding project appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Science Daily - 1 day 13 hours ago
Researchers combined synthetic DNA with a semiconductor to create an ultra-low-power memory device capable of storing and processing information in the same place. The bio-hybrid technology could eventually help make AI systems and next-generation computers far more energy efficient.

Science Alert - 1 day 14 hours ago
An "unprecedented form of matter". ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 13 min ago
Tommy John, who ruptured a ligament in his left elbow in 1974, agreed to a radical surgery that revived his career and changed baseball. He pitched for 26 years.

Mother Jones - 2 days 5 hours ago
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From disappearing manatees to bleached coral reefs, gender-changing turtles and oyster beds destroyed by hurricanes, no other state's marine life faces the magnitude of climate-related challenges that Florida's does. Now, wildlife authorities are attempting to bring some cohesion to tackling the diverse slate of issues by […]...

Mother Jones - 2 days 7 hours ago
The northern spotted owl is in trouble per usual. This vanishingly rare subspecies of spotted owl earned its iconic status in the late '80s and early '90s, during the height of the Timber Wars in the Pacific Northwest. For forest defenders, the spotted owl is a sacred totem. For loggers, it's been a pest. In 1990, […]...