James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Slowly cracking through the dense pack ice of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea is hefty, ice-breaking research vessel S. A. Agulhas II (pictured below). It was part of Endurance22, a successful 2022 expedition to locate the sunken...
A meteor burns up as it nears Earth, unlike asteroids that can hit the surface and wreak havocJames Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust How to Kill an AsteroidRobin George Andrews (W.W.Norton) FOR a generation of scientists – and science fiction fans – Hollywood...
Haruki Murakami has a long-awaited new novel out in English translation this monthRICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images I’ve been looking forward to the English translation of Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, since it was...
A new material can bend lightUniversity of Glasgow Scientists have discovered a technique whereby light can be bent around corners, inspired by the way clouds scatter sunlight. This type of light-bending could lead to advances in medical imaging, electronics cooling...
As the H5N1 avian influenza virus continues its rampage through U.S. dairy cow herds, it has also infected human farm workers. A different strain has also infected workers on poultry farms, most recently in Washington State. On Wednesday the U.S....
October 31, 20242 min readCatastrophic Floods in Spain Kill at Least 95 PeopleTorrential rain, made worse by climate change, has lashed Spain, with Valencia bearing the brunt of the floodwatersBy Seb Starcevic, Karl Mathiesen & E&E NewsCars are piled in...
A power substation near a data centre in VirginiaNathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images Silicon Valley’s scramble to build more data centres could boost US gas demand by the equivalent of another New York State or California within a decade, with...
