Hurricane Milton Delays Launch of Europa Clipper, and Science Nobel Awards Highlight AIA roundup of the science Nobels, the latest COVID updates and the Europa Clipper launch delay.By Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi & Anaissa Ruiz Tejada Anaissa Ruiz Tejada/Scientific AmericanRachel...
October 14, 20242 min readBirds Practice Singing in Their SleepNew work listens in on bird dreamsBy David Godkin David Plummer/Alamy Stock PhotoScientists tell us that the family dog shuffling its legs while asleep on the floor really is dreaming. And...
October 14, 20244 min readTrump’s Racist Rants against Immigrants Hide under the Language of EugenicsAnti-immigrant rhetoric in the U.S. comes straight out of the playbook of eugenics, deeply dishonest scientism that criminality, poverty and a host of other ills were...
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital was hit by Hurricane Milton earlier this weekDirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Wire/Alamy A children’s hospital that lost access to water in the wake of Hurricane Milton is now using a device that can collect drinking...
The genus Citrus refers to a group of flowering shrubs and treesliv friis-larsen / Alamy This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. One...
Spear-throwing tools called atlatls allow humans to launch projectiles over great distances, but Neanderthals apparently never used them – and an experiment involving a 9-metre-tall platform may explain why Source link...
A duck getting its flu jab at a French farm in November 2023Shutterstock/Leitenberger Photography France would have had hundreds of outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu on poultry farms in the past year had it not vaccinated ducks against the disease...
Endometriosis tissue viewed under a microscopeBIOPHOTO ASSOCIATES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Low levels of a particular compound in faeces could be a sign of endometriosis – and supplementation of that compound might even help control the condition. Affecting nearly 200 million people...
It sounds like a joke: poppy seeds infused with opioids.Indeed, it was a plotline on the sitcom Seinfeld. But for some it has been a tragedy.People have died after drinking tea brewed from unwashed poppy seeds.On supporting science journalismIf you're...
October 11, 20243 min readThird-Trimester Abortions Are Moral and Necessary Health Care Abortions after 20 weeks are about ending suffering. To deny someone that care is barbaric By Cara C. Heuser They travel dozens, hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles seeking...
