The Supreme Court’s Contempt for History Promises a Worse Racial Future for U.S.The high court treating the children of a highly educated slice of the U.S. as equivalent to people who descended from the history of enslavement and Jim Crow...
Unusual cells without walls can create structures (main image) that resemble those found in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks from Buck Reef, South Africa (inset)Dheeraj Kanaparthi et al. (2024); Tice et al., (2009) The oldest rocks on Earth contain mysterious fossils of cells...
Ozempic could treat many more conditions than just type 2 diabetes and obesitymyskin/Shutterstock Another study adds credence to the idea that semaglutide – the drug in medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy – could help treat addiction. Researchers found that...
Why Controlling Landfill Methane Is Key to Slowing Climate ChangeThe EPA plans to propose a rule in 2025 that will tackle methane emissions from landfills, one of the country's largest sources of the greenhouse gasBy Jean Chemnick & E&E NewsInver...
A hoard of Bronze Age metal fragments from Weißig, GermanyJ. Lipták/Landesamt für Archäologie Sachsen Bronze Age Europeans earned and spent money in much the same way as we do today, indicating that the origins of the “market economy” are far...
akinbostanci/Getty Images As turning points in cosmic history go, the birth of the first stars is hard to beat. When they flickered into existence between 200 and 400 million years after the big bang, the energy pouring from them ripped...
Could drastic action help restore coral reefs?Serge Melesan / Alamy Corals are being hit so hard by global warming that the only way to save reef ecosystems may be to replace native species with more heat-tolerant ones from elsewhere in...
In experiments, subatomic particles don’t always behave as theory would predictATLAS Collaboration The puzzling behaviour of a fundamental particle called a muon, which some scientists think could be a sign of new physics, might actually be explained by our current...
There are monsters on the Beira D oil rig – and you must evade themThe Chinese Room Still Wakes the DeepThe Chinese RoomPC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S There is a genre of video games known, in slightly derogatory fashion,...
Disagreement is an inevitable event in every relationship, and one of life’s most valuable lessons is how to heal those hurt feelings. However, since I started this column, I have received many emails asking about estrangement from parents or siblings....
