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Retraction Watch - 19 hours 7 min agoIn May 2025, Tennessee authorities were preparing to arrest a university math professor for allegedly soliciting university donations from his students and pocketing the money. Investigative records paint the picture of a professor who took financial and personal advantage of his students for years from manipulating them into paying him rent to making them … Continue reading Tennessee researcher heads to court amid claims of theft, forgery and revenge...
One of the great mysteries in astronomy has been why Venus has no moon. Now a new theory provides a simple answer: It might have been eaten.
Crews digging for a water project in Oceanside, Calif., just hit a very big, very old surprise. About 12 feet down, workers uncovered limb bones, ribs, and other fragments from a large hoofed mammal that roamed the region roughly 40 million years ago, scientists say. Paleontologist Joseph El Adli thinks...
Australian Geographic - 1 day 3 hours agoWith the right gear, North Queensland's giant burrowing cockroach could deliver emergency medical care to people trapped in collapsed buildings or mines. The post ‘Cyborg insect rescue teams’ could one day save lives appeared first on Australian Geographic .
Nature - 1 day 5 hours agoAn OpenAI agent accessed secure data on an Australian health-care website, but the incident wasn't reported for months.
Nature - 1 day 5 hours agoUniversity students who are highly motivated to watch sports online do not report higher participation in exercise.
Australian Geographic - 1 day 10 hours agoSnow-clad peaks, mighty waterways, and ruggedly wild forests make NZ's South Island one of the world's best outdoor playgrounds. The post Adventure Isle: The best of New Zealand's South Island appeared first on Australian Geographic .
A construction project at a Paris hospital has unexpectedly revived a centuries-old argument over where the city began. Archaeologists shoring up the Hotel Dieu on the Ile de la Cite uncovered a 72-foot-long stone-and-wood wall and a Gallic spearhead, finds that experts say look like late Iron Age fortifications described...
A bad press release makes a good excuse to look at how developmental biology works.
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 11 hours agoThe North Sea swallowed the medieval town of Shipden, and a 19th-century blast may have erased the rest.
An amoeba that shrugs off heat that would wreck most complex cells has turned up in a California national park. Syracuse University researchers say the microbe, dubbed the "fire amoeba," can grow at 145 degrees Fahrenheit and survive blasts up to 158 degrees, pushing past what scientists thought was the...
GeekSpin - 1 day 13 hours agoThere are about ten meters of living fungus in a teaspoon of good soil. Add up every teaspoon in Earth’s topsoil, and the thread runs roughly 110 quadrillion kilometers, long enough, stretched end to end, to reach the Sun hundreds of millions of times. The numbers come from the first global map of arbuscular mycorrhizal […] Read the original article here: Earth hides a living network that could reach the Sun 700M times...
Chris Wright, the Energy Secretary, speaking before the G20 Ministerial Meeting on Energy Abundance in Houston last week.
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 15 hours agoA new study replicated the heat and pressure conditions of Western Australia's vast iron-ore deposits to produce natural hydrogen gas.
GeekSpin - 1 day 16 hours agoApproximately 47,800 containers of radioactive waste are sitting on the ocean floor off San Francisco. No salvage operation has ever been mounted to retrieve them, though limited surveys and sampling have occurred. Ships dumped the barrels between 1946 and 1970, carrying them 25 to 60 miles offshore and tipping them over the side. Most were […] Read the original article here: Why 47,000 barrels of radioactive waste are being left on California's seafloor...
How the US gave up its edge to China in processing vital rare earth minerals and what that's costing
Today, China controls the vast majority of rare earths processing. That gives it enormous political leverage, and its trade truce with the US involving those minerals expires Nov. 10, 2026.
Storms like 2026's Hurricane Polo that rapidly intensify can catch communities off guard and leave little time to prepare or evacuate. Being able to forecast those risks can save lives.
The catastrophic story is familiar, but the insight, and the ending, offer an opportunity, and perhaps motivation, for modern readers.
Post-eruption imaging of the Hunga caldera gives new details of its collapse.
Can the energy giants be held responsible for extreme weather?...
Retraction Watch - 1 day 19 hours agoWhile reading a chapter from a 2024 book on restoring biodiversity in post-industrial land earlier this month, an ecologist came across a reference to a study on rewilding she wanted to look up. But the ecologist, who has asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation from the chapter authors, couldn't find a record of … Continue reading Wiley investigating book chapter on biodiversity for fake references...
Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 21 hours agoIt is fall, and even though not much changes here, the light becomes low and golden. I feel like every season is my favorite time of year when it arrives, but this time, I really mean it. Here is a beautiful tree of gold from a trip to Japan, and here’s a post I wrote […] The post Golden Boy appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
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