Remember ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that right-wing media figures wrongly touted as a cure for COVID? How about hydroxychloroquine, the malaria treatment taken by thousands who then suffered side-effects after Donald Trump recommended it as a COVID treatment? And recall...
A southern giant hornet in ThailandRushen Southern giant hornets, a species native to Asia, have been sighted in Europe for the first time, raising concerns about their potential impact on native insects. Between 2022 and 2023, Omar Sánchez Fernández at...
Bluesky sign-ups continue to growAnna Barclay/Getty Images As a technology reporter, I like to think I’m an early adopter. I first signed up to the social network Bluesky around 18 months ago, when the platform saw a small surge in...
November 19, 20243 min readExotic Powder Pulls Carbon Dioxide from the Air at a Record RateA unique crystalline compound soaks up CO2 with great efficiencyBy Alec Luhn Boris Zhitkov/Getty ImagesThis story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean...
November 19, 20245 min readFamous Star Hasn’t Formed Planets, and We Don’t Know WhyThe nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons we can’t explainBy Jonathan O'CallaghanAn...
Most mathematicians have been reluctant to start working with artificial intelligence, but a new tool developed by researchers at Meta may change that Source link...
Several populations of Mexican tetra fish that live in darkness have independently evolved to need hardly any sleep, but the reason why is a mystery Source link...
It can be hard to keep weight offTero Vesalainen/Getty Images People with obesity who lose weight often put it back on, which may partly be driven by lasting changes to the DNA within their fat cells, a discovery that could...
Syncing up time crystals can help harness energyNobi_Prizue/Getty Images To store energy with a time crystal, make it a double. A mathematical analysis shows that putting two time crystals into a coordinated state could create a quantum battery-like device. Time...
How did Earth’s inner core freeze solid?Rost9/Shutterstock A high concentration of carbon within Earth’s inner core could explain a long-standing mystery about how the deepest part of our planet froze solid – a process that kick-started the magnetic field protecting...
