A new kind of weather forecast could tell us beforehand whether extreme events, like the 2018 Hurricane Florence, were made worse by climate changeNathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images A revolution in weather forecasting could soon see warnings of...
Biomarkers in blood can point towards certain conditionsEvgeniy Salov/Alamy Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) could one day be diagnosed with a blood test, after researchers have linked eight genetic markers to the condition. People with ALS – the most common form...
This is a real photo of Joe Biden giving a speechSHAWN THEW/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock People can generally spot when videos of famous politicians giving speeches are actually AI-generated deepfakes. But we have more trouble discerning counterfeits from reality when listening to audio...
Ten unexpected things were honoured at the 34th Annual Ig Nobel prizes today, each so extremely surprising that, in the event’s long tradition, it makes people laugh, then think. The awards gala happened at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in...
Part of a mountain and glacier alongside Dickson Fjord in Greenland in August 2023 (left), and the same spot after a landslide in September 2023Søren Rysgaard/Danish Army On 16 September 2023, seismic monitoring stations around the world detected a strange...
Illustration of the end-Permian extinction event, when extreme temperatures may have killed off forestsRICHARD JONES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The Great Dying at the end of the Permian Period 250 million years ago may have been amplified by El Niño events far...
“Microbially derived food products let consumers eat meat, fish, cheese, eggs and milk that tasted just like the real thing”Shutterstock/Gorodenkoff The food revolution burst into the open in the early 2030s. Microbial processes were developed that allowed us to brew...
Sea ice in the Weddell Sea, AntarcticaSergio Pitamitz/VWPics/Alamy For the second year in a row, Antarctic sea ice has reached near-record low levels. This reinforces concerns that human-caused climate change has initiated a lasting “regime shift” in the amount of...
If you had to choose a few words or symbols to encapsulate your legacy, what would you pick? Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) left behind a trophy case stocked with mathematical achievements to choose from, but above all, he wanted...
It wasn’t a small step—more a clamber, really—but as billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman climbed partway out of a SpaceX Dragon capsule located nearly 740 kilometers above Earth on early Thursday morning, he made a giant leap into spaceflight history.That’s because...
