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Retraction Watch - 1 day 11 hours agoIf your week flew by we know ours did catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 67,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: OpenAI's preprint dump; Taylor & Francis to leave Informa; arXiv's preprint cap...
Humans Watched This Supernova Explode Nearly a Millennium Ago. Now You Can See It in High Definition
The new image isn't just stunning it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion.
PBS Newshour - 1 day 22 hours agoEveryone wants to keep a sharp mind as they age, especially as dementia cases continue to rise. Now, a growing body of evidence suggests almost half of the key risks for cognitive decline can be prevented or delayed. Horizons moderator William Brangham explores the emerging science that can help protect against dementia with Dr. Jonathan Rosand of the Global Brain Care Coalition. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
PBS Newshour - 1 day 22 hours agoHurricane Isaias has strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane as it heads toward the Gulf Coast. Residents are rushing to prepare for the storm, which is packing winds up to 120 mph and is expected to make landfall Friday night. Amna Nawaz speaks with Michael Brennan, director of the National Hurricane Center, for more. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
Hurricane Isaias formed so late in the season that it set an Atlantic Ocean record. The Pacific is on a very different track.
Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
Australian Geographic - 1 day 22 hours agoBirds build their nests with whatever they can find. This spring, let's make sure some of those materials are as nature intended. The post Birds are building nests with our rubbish. Can we offer them something better? appeared first on Australian Geographic .
Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day.
Experts say the cataclysmic upheaval to the field will affect students the most, especially graduate students on the cusp of becoming a part of this intellectual community.
Nikon's Small World in Motion competition is an annual video contest that awards the best footage captured through the lens of a microscope.
Fallen leaves provide essential winter habitat for native pollinators and provide natural mulch for the soil. If you have to clear some leaves, don't get rid of them entirely: Move them out of sight.
Retraction Watch - 2 days 4 hours agoIOP Publishing has retracted nearly 100 papers from three of its conference proceedings after the articles were flagged for containing tortured phrases. Tortured phrases are rephrasings and synonyms often awkward and nonsensical substituted in text to evade plagiarism detectors. For example, one of the retracted papers described "savvy lattices" and "shrewd homes" instead … Continue reading Cerebral torment': IOP retracts nearly 100 conference papers for tortured...
Popular Mechanics - 2 days 5 hours agoA NASA-backed experiment shows how engineered microbes can convert discarded water bottles into edible protein.
GeekSpin - 2 days 8 hours agoNewly analyzed fossils from a South African cave suggest that Homo erectus, an early human species believed to be our direct ancestor, was living in southern Africa about 2 million years ago. The new adult specimen is roughly 200,000 years older than other known adult Homo erectus fossils (the species' presence at this early date […] Read the original article here: Scientists find Homo erectus 200,000 years earlier than thought...
An atmospheric scientist explains what's been going on in the atmosphere, and how El Ni o and the jet stream both play important roles.
An atmospheric scientist explains what's been going on in the atmosphere, and how El Ni o and the jet stream both play important roles.
GeekSpin - 2 days 9 hours agoA volatile volcano in Nicaragua is stirring deep below the surface, and scientists are keeping a close eye on its complex underground plumbing. Masaya volcano, famous for hosting a fiery lava lake nicknamed the “Mouth of Hell,” is actively refilling with magma. Because the active caldera sits just 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Managua, Nicaragua’s […] Read the original article here: Dangerous volcano near 2 million people is refilling with lava...
Mother Jones - 2 days 10 hours agoA velvety butterfly called the coastal green hairstreak once peppered the fog-capped hills of San Francisco. But then the city began to build out, and new structures fractured the jewel-toned insect's native range. The butterflies were scattered into isolated populations, some only a few blocks apart an astronomical distance for a creature that, over its lifetime, […]...
Every year, hundreds of animals die trying to cross State Route 62, connecting L.A. and Joshua Tree. The research to fix it is a bit unconventional.
Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 13 hours agoTomorrow is international jumping spider day, so I’m taking this as an excuse to tell you about one my favorite jumping spiders, Habronattus pyrrhithrix. I was introduced to the species while writing a story about the perceptual world of jumping spiders for Science News. I interviewed visual ecologist Nate Morehouse at the University of Cincinnati. […] The post Jumping Spider Courtship Is Dazzling, Dangerous Business appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
Nature - 2 days 21 hours agoDavid Lapola is testing a big climate-science unknown: how will the forest cope as atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to rise?...
Nature - 2 days 21 hours agoChange is in the air.
Nature - 2 days 21 hours agoThe ink could be useful for medical tattooing, but more tests are needed before it is widely available.
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