From electric cars to wildfires, how Trump may affect climate actions
Trump’s first term, campaign pledges and nominees point to how efforts to address climate change…
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Key Atlantic current is weakening much faster than scientists had predicted
A current key to stabilizing climates across the Atlantic and beyond could be one-third weaker…
$300 billion pledge at COP29 climate summit a “paltry sum”
The world’s most important climate talks were pulled back from the brink of collapse after…
‘It is a treasure’: Wreck off Kenyan coast may be from Vasco da Gama’s final voyage
Researchers think the wreck was part of a flotilla that accompanied the Portuguese explorer’s final…
Parents are not to blame for their children’s picky eating, study finds
A longitudinal study of British children found that fussy eating is largely determined by genetic…
Dengue is classified as an urban disease. Mosquitoes don’t care
Infectious diseases are often labeled “urban” or “rural.” Applying political labels to public health misses…
What really happened at the 1st Thanksgiving?
The Pilgrims and Wampanoag shared a harvest feast, but it didn’t happen the way you…
Childhood adversity may blunt brain development rather than speed it up
A new study published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience sheds light on how early exposure to…
How physics moves from wild ideas to actual experiments
Neutrinos are some of nature’s most elusive particles. One hundred trillion fly through your body…
Experiment: What makes ice melt fastest?
Objective: Determine which added material will make ice melt fastest Areas of science: Chemistry Difficulty:…
Catapulting pollen helps this flower beat out its rivals
Some flowers may be using their pollinators as battlegrounds. Their secret weapon: built-in pollen catapults…
Scientists Say: Rocket propellants
Rocket propellants (noun, “Rah-kit Pro-PELL-ents”) Rockets need two things to propel them forward. One is…
When GPS fails, cellphone signals could come to the rescue and safely navigate planes instead
A safety net of balloon-mounted sensors listening for satellites and cell towers could save lives…
Do any infectious diseases have a 100% fatality rate?
Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for…
Black Friday or Christmas Sales: Which is better?
Black Friday and the Christmas sales are both great times to save money on the…
Mask of Xiuhtecuhtli: A 600-year-old mask of the Aztec fire god taken as treasure by conquistadors
This stunning blue mask may represent the Aztec cycle of death and renewal.
Secondary psychopathic traits linked to faster expansion of visual attention
A recent study published in Personality and Individual Differences sheds light on the relationship between…
After Russian ship docks to space station, astronauts report a foul smell
It should have been a routine mission to ferry about three tons of food, fuel,…
Survivors mark 20th anniversary of deadly 2004 tsunami
In the wee hours of December 26, 2004, a massive 9.2 earthquake occurred in the…
Are women better at forecasting relationship outcomes? New study provides intriguing insights
Do women have a better sense of when a relationship will end? A new study…
Chinese scientists claim they have built a Death Star-inspired beam weapon
Chinese scientists claim they have made a converging energy beam weapon — but did they…
Lonely individuals tend to think and talk in an unusual way, study finds
Two neuroimaging studies found that lonely individuals’ neural representations of well-known celebrities diverged from those…
What delusions can tell us about the cognitive nature of belief
Beliefs are convictions of reality that we accept as true. They provide us with the…
Space photo of the week: Hubble uncovers the true identity of an odd galaxy — and it’s not spiral or elliptical
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual…
