Science and Technolgy blog
A “bizarre” E-shaped aurora was recently photographed dancing in the sky above Alaska. The unusual light show was caused by rare black auroras, a.k.a. anti-auroras, which catapult charged particles from the sun back out of Earth’s atmosphere and into space.
New brain scans have shown that neurons in several regions of the brain become significantly more active across birth.
A system of non-competition clauses enforced by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) workforce suppliers is allegedly trapping aerospace professionals who work at ESA’s facilities across Europe in a professional dead-end street. Their contracts prevent job mobility and the possibility to…
Without a fungal support network, trees can lose their ability to adapt to changing climatic conditions, increasing their extinction risk.
A new study published in Communication Research has uncovered striking differences in how people from different countries interact with political news. In the United States, individuals overwhelmingly choose news that aligns with their partisan views, reinforcing political divides. However, this…
The week before Thanksgiving, Marshall Brain sent a final email to his colleagues at North Carolina State University. “I have just been through one of the most demoralizing, depressing, humiliating, unjust processes possible with the university,” wrote the founder of…
A polar bear stands on floating sea ice in the Arctic. The bears rely on sea ice to move throughout their hunting grounds.
The footage give clues to the range of plants the bears eat and how they mate, information important for conservation.
An analysis of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study found that negative emotionality—the tendency to experience frequent and intense negative emotions—in infancy was associated with maltreatment at ages 5 and 9. Children with higher negative emotionality as…
A Russian court has issued a life sentence to a man found guilty of being the kingpin of a dark web drug marketplace that supplied more than a metric ton of narcotics and psychotropic substances to customers around the world.…
