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PBS Newshour - 19 hours 26 min agoIndonesia is battling its worst wildfires in more than a decade, made worse by El Ni o. Many were deliberately set to clear land for farming, including palm oil plantations. More than 12,000 schools across Indonesia have closed because of the toxic haze. Nathaniel Undas, a school principal and photographer, has been documenting the fires on social media. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
Australian Geographic - 19 hours 28 min agoPoo might seem like something to step around, but for conservationists, it's a treasure trove of scientific clues. From revealing what threatened animals eat to tracking disease and uncovering genetic diversity, scat is helping researchers protect wildlife. The post The power of poo: Why conservationists love animal scat appeared first on Australian Geographic .
Energy provider SSEN says 2,000 properties in the north of Scotland are still without power after days of high winds and heavy rain.
You can apparently now tell AI tools what sort of protein you want them to make.
Earwax's unusual physical properties help it repel insects in the lab. Is this a job it evolved to do in animal ears?...
About 40% of the plants and animals in protected sites across Northern Ireland fall short of meeting the standard for "favourable condition".
A new global strategy launched at the U.N. biodiversity conference in Armenia aims to bring fungi from mushrooms to yeasts into international conservation efforts.
An oil drilling operation in Carlsbad, N.M.
A longtime zookeeper at a safari park in the Netherlands died Tuesday from injuries she suffered when she was attacked by a leopard in its enclosure on Saturday. The Beekse Bergen Safari Park said in a statement that the woman, whose name has been withheld in accordance with Dutch privacy...
GeekSpin - 1 day 2 hours agoA small hoard of Celtic silver coins has been found under a former sports field in Germany, and it’s the largest of its kind ever discovered in the state of Thuringia. Archaeologists from Thuringia's State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology (TLDA) were surveying the site in the village of Singen (nestled below the Singer […] Read the original article here: Archaeologists find 2,000 year old treasure under sports field...
GeekSpin - 1 day 2 hours agoWe just got something pretty close to a baby photo of the universe. A team of astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has created the most detailed simulation yet of the universe in its infancy, giving us a virtual look at how the cosmos evolved during its first two billion years. […] Read the original article here: New supercomputer simulation reveals how the universe formed...
A once-misidentified "teenage T. rex" just netted an adult-sized price. The mounted skeleton of a newly recognized species, Nanotyrannus, sold at Sotheby's in New York for $47.3 million. That makes it the second-priciest dinosaur ever auctioned after a Tyrannosaurus rex called "Gus." The AP reports that "Jodi" named for...
Retraction Watch - 1 day 4 hours agoThe Game Theory Society is severing ties with one of its official journals. The move comes two months after the journal's editors resigned because Elsevier failed to renew the contract for the journal's editor-in-chief. The society released a statement on October 9 announcing it will "withdraw its support for and end its association with" Games … Continue reading Game theory society yanks support for journal after Elsevier fails to renew EIC contract...
New contemporary sculpture replaces the globe in the original Roman artifact with a cup as a tribute.
Instead of trying to restrict AI technologies, regulations could focus on the harm the technology causes people and companies.
Mechanobiology can help identify how the physical forces within cells affect how well viruses can invade them.
Two orbiters have long outlasted their expected lifespans and completely reshaped our understanding of the Red Planet, all while operating 140 million miles from Earth.
Australian Geographic - 1 day 17 hours agoThe arrival of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza on the Australian mainland is galvanising nature lovers across the country as the virus threatens to devastate our wildlife. The post What’s next for bird flu? appeared first on Australian Geographic .
Retraction Watch - 1 day 23 hours agoThe University of Sydney has once again investigated the work of a former research fellow in its physics department, this time resulting in the retraction of a 2014 paper over concerns that data in several figures were likely fabricated. In September, the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics retracted an article by Joachim Schmidt, who … Continue reading Another Sydney investigation of astrophysicist leads to retraction...
Put your genetics knowledge to the test with these 10 questions on the double helix and the code of life The post DNA Quiz: Test Your Genetics and Molecular Biology Knowledge appeared first on How It Works .
GeekSpin - 2 days 4 hours agoSilicon Valley has a new defense-tech obsession, and it has four legs. Warhound, a startup backed by some of the biggest names in venture capital, wants to clone and genetically edit working dogs for the U.S. military. The goal is to make them stronger performers, extend their working lives and potentially change how military dogs […] Read the original article here: The CIA is investing millions into gene-edited dogs...
In a lab in Luxembourg in 2024, engineers at Flawless Photonics unpacked a spool of glass fiber that had just returned from the International Space Station (ISS). As they threaded it onto their rewinding machine, the machine jammed as happens sometimes and they braced for the usual outcome: the fiber would snap. This time though, nothing broke. It was an early hint that their experiment might have been successful. The Flawless Photonics team had set out to draw fibers of a heavy-metal fluoride glass...
Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 8 hours agoThe other day I couldn't come up with the name Jane Goodall. Of all the names, that's not one I thought I'd ever struggle to recall. Jane Goodall!! I sat for a while, picturing Jane. Thinking about the amazing work she did with chimps. Remembering the criticism lobbed at her by scientists for giving her […] The post Sounding It Out appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
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