New Glenn on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, FloridaBlue Origin Blue Origin, the space company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is set to launch its reusable New Glenn rocket for the first time on 10 January. If successful,...
January 7, 20253 min readWhat Does First U.S Bird Flu Death Tell Experts about Disease Severity?Louisiana has reported the first U.S. fatality from avian influenza. Most of the country’s human cases have been mildBy Tanya Lewis edited by Dean VisserThe...
January 7, 20254 min readFrigid Temperatures Are Way below Normal This Week, but ‘Normal’ Is Getting WarmerBlasts of Arctic air have brought frigid temperatures that are much colder than normal to parts of the U.S., but that “normal” background is...
January 7, 20252 min readMore People Are Dying in Cold Weather, Especially Older AdultsRising temperatures might be altering the atmosphere in ways that cause more extreme winter weather, scientists sayBy Chelsea Harvey & E&E News An unhoused person walks near...
Fermat’s last theorem remained unsolved for hundreds of yearsAlessandro Gandolfi/Panos Pictures The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas...
Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) has probably been infecting people for centuriesROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Alarmist headlines that warn of China once again being overwhelmed by a mysterious new virus have dominated in the past few days. But the virus reported to...
Neuroscientist David Levitin explores how music can help heal us in his new bookNatalie Foss Most of us already know that music can have a profound effect on mind and body. Consider the feeling of empowerment when you slip on...
Five years ago, in January 2020, a new year had begun, one that would be like no other in living memory. Three months later, much of the world was in lockdown. Most people were unable to leave home for work...
Social media companies have long struggled with moderating the behaviour of billions of users, and now it seems they are finally giving up policing their platforms in favour of a crowdsourced approach – but will it work? Source link...
A redox flow battery at a power plant in Japan. A new process could replace rare metals in these batteries with an industrial byproductTomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images An industrial waste product has been converted into a component for batteries...
