Alexander Pohl/Sipa USA/Alamy If ever there were a wake-up call, this is it. The fire alarm is ringing – hell, the fire alarm is on fire. The latest data confirms that 2024 was the first year in which the average...
Analysis and Technology The Chinese social media apps Red Note and Lemon8 have become popular alternatives for TikTok users ahead of a US government ban on TikTok. But government restrictions loom over those apps too By Jeremy Hsu US TikTok...
At the end of October 2024, a grey gloom descended over the British Isles. Nothing unusual there. But this murky shroud was particularly persistent, even for the UK. Some regions barely saw the sun for a fortnight. Residents of the...
A late Iron Age Durotrigan burial at Winterborne Kingston in Dorset, UKBournemouth University Genetic analysis of people buried in a 2000-year-old cemetery in southern England has bolstered the idea that Celtic communities in Britain placed women centre-stage, showing that women...
January 15, 20254 min readHow the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S.Vast weather patterns can carry blasts of frigid air far from the polar regions—here’s how it worksBy Meghan Bartels edited by Andrea ThompsonA woman walks on...
January 15, 20253 min readMigrating Birds Sing to Team Up with Other SpeciesSongbirds may socialize across species during nighttime migrationsBy Gayoung Lee edited by Sarah Lewin FrasierA singing American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla). Brian Reinke/Getty ImagesTiny songbirds such as cardinals and...
On 19 May 2024, I arrive in the southern California sunshine for my first ever visit to Los Angeles’s Chinatown. As an east coaster, I half expect to find the familiar grittiness of New York’s Chinatown. I am surprised by...
As planets go, Mercury is a world of extremes – and one that doesn’t always make a great deal of sense. Its iron core is absurdly and inexplicably huge. Despite its searing temperature, it has ice trapped at its poles....
Artist’s impression of ASKAP J1839-0756, a neutron star emitting beams of radio waves from its magnetic polesJames Josephides A collapsed star around 13,000 light years away is so unusual that the researchers who have discovered it say it shouldn’t exist....
Golden oyster mushrooms growing on a fallen log in IowaKatie Flenker / Alamy Regularly eating golden oyster mushrooms protected heart health and promoted longevity in mice. Golden oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) – fungi native to parts of Russia, China and...
