
Newser - 1 day 10 hours ago
Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather, or just about to be. Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii, per the AP . The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over...

Mother Jones - 1 day 10 hours ago
"Tell me that is a gorgeous country." Dave Rogers, an Oregon farmer, points across an expanse of green ryegrass fields. "My goodness, look at that." We’re walking along a stretch of land that is under contract for solar development by Hanwha Qcells, a Seoul-based firm known for opening the United States' largest solar manufacturing facility […]...

Wired - 1 day 10 hours ago
Who needs a supercomputer when you can calculate pi with a box of sewing needles?...

Retraction Watch - 1 day 11 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: Plus: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 400 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 63,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 … Continue reading Weekend reads: Don't hate the replicator, hate the game'; Crossref finds 150K incorrect citation links in database; Announcing our Ctrl-Z award...

Wired - 1 day 12 hours ago
Researchers in Japan pioneered reprogrammed cells 20 years ago. Now the country has given the first-ever authorizations to manufacture and sell medical products based on the technology.

Newser - 1 day 14 hours ago
Bumblebee queens have a survival trick that sounds impossible: They can apparently ride out a week underwater. A lab mishap at Ontario's University of Guelph led to the discovery, detailed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal , after condensation flooded soil tubes holding common eastern bumblebee queens in...

New Scientist - 1 day 21 hours ago
In a randomised trial, men who experience premature ejaculation benefitted from using an app to learn techniques for extending intercourse...

Nature - 1 day 21 hours ago
The new five-year plan calls for more original scientific research to facilitate the country's bid for self-reliance.

PBS Newshour - 1 day 22 hours ago
Once a relatively obscure class of drugs used for people with diabetes, GLP-1s have now shown an impressive ability to treat obesity, which affects over 100 million Americans. Horizons moderator William Brangham explores the great promise of the drugs and the potential concerns surrounding them with Dr. Jody Dushay, Dr. Rekha B. Kumar, Dr. Anna Lembke and Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Ars Technica - 2 days 9 min ago
When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short.

New Scientist - 2 days 5 hours ago
Simulations of Australopithecus hominins' anatomy suggest that when they gave birth, they may have exerted tremendous pressure on their pelvic floors, putting them at risk of tearing...

Ars Technica - 2 days 5 hours ago
Frame-dragging may explain an odd pattern seen in the brightest supernovae.

Retraction Watch - 2 days 6 hours ago
Springer Nature has launched a new agriculture journal under the troubled Cureus brand. As part of its launch, the publisher invited at least one researcher with irrelevant specialities to join its editorial board, Retraction Watch has learned. The new journal comes after Clarivate's Web of Science delisting the original and long-embattled Cureus Journal of Medical … Continue reading Embattled journal brand mistakenly invites out-of-scope researchers to join board...

New Scientist - 2 days 7 hours ago
A trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism seems able to predict one thing will follow another, hinting that such associative learning emerged long before multicellular nervous systems...

Popular Mechanics - 2 days 8 hours ago
Precious metals like palladium and platinum are often used as chemical catalysts, but true to their name, they're expensive to source. Scientists may have just found a cheaper alternative.

Ars Technica - 2 days 9 hours ago
SpaceX has started commissioning a second launch pad at the company's Starbase facility in Texas.

The Conversation - 2 days 9 hours ago
Surveys have found that researchers studying UAPs can face pushback from mentors and colleagues, even from people who think it's an important line of research.

The Conversation - 2 days 9 hours ago
Rather than generating climate-warming emissions and wasting nutrients and energy, food waste can become a resource if processed in sewage treatment plants.

The Atlantic - 2 days 9 hours ago
The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.

How It Works - 2 days 12 hours ago
These big-footed marsupials have evolved an amazing lifecycle that is fully geared for the species' survival The post Joey to Adult: The Complete Kangaroo Life Cycle appeared first on How It Works .

Newser - 2 days 12 hours ago
A casual suggestion in a French office just rewrote a chapter of math history. Researcher Victor Gysembergh of France's CNRS says he has identified a long-missing page from the famed Archimedes Palimpsest, hiding in a fine arts museum in the central French city of Blois, reports AFP . The parchment, reused...

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 13 hours ago
Since I'm still a newbie around here, I jumped at the opportunity to get to know one of my fellow LWONers a little better by interviewing Eric Wagner about his latest book Seabirds as Sentinels: Auklets, Puffins, and the View from Destruction Island. I took my cue from Jennifer Holland's great recent interview with Neil […] The post Auklets and islands appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Nature - 2 days 21 hours ago
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Nature - 2 days 21 hours ago
The government's plans to poach 100 US researchers might make good economic sense. But what about the existing community?...