August 27, 20244 min readAdult Drowning Deaths Are IncreasingMost fatal drowning incidents in the U.S. involve adults, not children, and they often involve alcoholBy Erica Westly More than 4,500 people in the U.S. lost their lives in drowning accidents in...
August 27, 20244 min readWhy Aging Comes in Dramatic Waves in Our 40s and 60sA new study suggests that waves of aging-related changes occur at two distinct points in our lifeBy Saima S. Iqbal Bob_Bosewell/Getty ImagesAs a person enters their...
Stellar cluster NGC 1333 is home to a large number of brown dwarfsNASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/NOAO/DSS Astronomers have found six new worlds that look like planets, but formed like stars. These so-called rogue worlds are between 5 and 15 times the mass of...
Tweezers made from laser beams can hold and move a single atomAepsilon/Shutterstock The way gravity affects the quantum realm has so far remained mysterious. But an experiment that uses lasers as a pair of tweezers could let researchers assess how...
August 26, 20245 min read‘Corn Sweat’ and Climate Change Bring Sweltering Weather to the MidwestA heat wave is sending temperatures soaring in the Midwest, and “corn sweat” is pushing humidity sky-highBy Andrea ThompsonThe NWS HeatRisk map for Tuesday, August 27th,...
Researchers modelled nearly 1 million driving scenarios at US intersectionsAerial Archives / Alamy Stock Photo You may be guilty of accelerating up to intersections and slamming the brakes at a red light – this common habit can generate significant carbon...
We can enjoy music because of our ability to recognise musical boundariesNDAB Creativity/Shutterstock We may finally know how the brain processes a beat drop: people use two distinct brain networks to anticipate and identify transitions between segments in a piece...
We all know that being in nature is good for our health and mental well-being. But how does it work its magic? For example, what explains the finding that, following gall bladder surgery, people who could see a verdant scene...
An array of sensors at the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment in South DakotaMatthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility The latest hunt for dark matter has come up empty handed so far, but the upside is that physicists can now set the...
US officials taking part in a 6-hour war game of an attempted coupThorsten Thielow War GameJesse Moss and Tony GerberComing to UK television later this year; in select US cinemas Today, I want to talk about a film. This is a diversion from our...
