
IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 10 hours ago
As an auditor of battery manufacturers around the world, University of Maryland mechanical engineer Michael Pecht frequently finds himself touring spotless production floors. They're akin to "the cleanest hospital that you could imagine it's semiconductor-type cleanliness," he says. But he's also seen the opposite, and plenty of it. Pecht estimates he's audited dozens of battery factories where he found employees watering plants next to a production line or smoking cigarettes...

Ars Technica - 1 day 12 hours ago
Organizers had a way for attendees to track CO 2 levels throughout the venue even before they arrived.

Wired - 1 day 12 hours ago
My dog contributes to climate change. I love him anyway.

Retraction Watch - 1 day 13 hours ago
Did you know that Retraction Watch and the Retraction Watch Database are projects of The Center of Scientific Integrity? Others include the Medical Evidence Project, the Hijacked Journal Checker, and the Sleuths in Residence Program. Help support this work. Here's what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require … Continue reading Weekend reads: Our cofounder credited in fake citation; Substantial' undisclosed...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 21 hours ago
The person, who lived in Grays Harbor County, Wash., had been hospitalized earlier this month in Kings County, where Seattle is located.

Discover Magazine - 2 days 1 hour ago
Learn more about loggerhead turtles' ability to feel the magnetic field throughout their migrations — an ability that they've revealed to researchers through dancing.

Retraction Watch - 2 days 1 hour ago
Rolf Marschalek was on vacation when he saw a new paper had been published in the journal Autoimmunity. Marschalek, a biochemist at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany, was "very upset," he told Retraction Watch because he'd peer-reviewed the manuscript and had recommended against publication. The authors of the paper claimed to find DNA in … Continue reading Exclusive: Reviewer recommended against publishing paper on DNA in COVID vaccines...

Discover Magazine - 2 days 1 hour ago
Learn how dolphins have fun by blowing bubble rings underwater, using clever tricks to play games.

Ars Technica - 2 days 2 hours ago
Genes with related functions cluster together, and the AI uses that.

UPI - 2 days 3 hours ago
SpaceX's Starship booster exploded during testing of the new Super Heavy in South Texas early Friday. The incident happened about 4 a.m. CST.

The Independent - 2 days 4 hours ago
Around a third of American homes have a feline family member...

Retraction Watch - 2 days 5 hours ago
A Science journal has issued an expression of concern over questions about the data in a paper reporting the discovery of an antibody that neutralized all COVID-19 variants in mice. The article appeared in Science Immunology in August 2022 and has been cited 36 times, according to Clarivate's Web of Science. The study lists 30 … Continue reading COVID-19 paper by scientists at Harvard, Duke gets expression of concern for unreliable' data...

Ars Technica - 2 days 6 hours ago
Ars chats with director Tom Barbor-Might about new National Geographic documentary A Road Trip to Remember.

Smithsonian - 2 days 7 hours ago
From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms...

New Scientist - 2 days 8 hours ago
The distant universe might be littered with supermassive stars between 1000 and 10,000 times the mass of the sun, which could solve a cosmic mystery about the origins of extremely large black holes...

New Scientist - 2 days 9 hours ago
Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They're expected to get worse as the world warms...

New Scientist - 2 days 10 hours ago
Around 1000 markings on a slab of rock that was once a seafloor during the Cretaceous period may have been made by sea turtle flippers and swiftly buried by an earthquake...

The Independent - 2 days 11 hours ago
Researchers say findings provide evidence for comprehensive body-wide anti-aging strategy'...

Australian Geographic - 2 days 23 hours ago
At the last possible minute, Australia dropped its bid to host the United Nations COP31 climate summit next year in Adelaide alongside Pacific nations. The post Australia will not host the COP31 climate talks. Here's what happened and what's next appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 23 hours ago
California air regulators adopted new rules designed to reduce methane leaks and better respond to disastrous underground fires at landfills statewide.

Australian Geographic - 2 days 23 hours ago
Nature didn't dole out survival tools fairly some animals got the lion's share, while others make do with what they've got. The post Box jellyfish are the Swiss Army knives of the ocean appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Nature - 3 days 21 min ago
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what's driving US health policy.

Nature - 3 days 21 min ago
Hackers are ramping up attacks on academic institutions to access valuable data and to demand ransoms.

Nature - 3 days 21 min ago
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.