Emotional Ads Show How Climate Change Is ‘Robbing Our Kids of a Safe and Beautiful World’The nonpartisan group Science Moms says its campaign of ads that show the harms that climate change brings to children is nonpartisan and meant to...
New Delhi, India, in March 2020, during a curfew imposed as a preventive measure against covid-19Yawar Nazir/Getty Images The covid-19 pandemic may have impacted India more severely than previously estimated, with the life expectancy of women, certain social groups and...
Between Twister and Twisters, Tornado Science Has Improved a Lot in Three DecadesThree decades of tornado science research is now at play in the new summer flick TwistersBy Max SpringerHelen Hunt and Bill Paxton as their characters Jo and Bill...
Domestication Squished Dogs’ Heads and Obscured Their EmotionsPugs, Boston terriers, bulldogs and boxers—dogs with less wolflike facial features are worse at conveying their feelingsBy Lori Youmshajekian MicharlSvoboda/Getty ImagesCenturies of breeding to make our canine companions suit human aesthetics have left...
Worldwide Tech Outage Started with Defective Crowdstrike Update to Microsoft WindowsAn issue with a commonly used security software called Crowdstrike shuttered large technology systems around the globe, including airlines, transit systems and stock exchangesBy Alan Woodward & The Conversation USCargo...
An artist’s impression of the very distant undead galaxyESO/M. Kornmesser A strange, zombie-like galaxy has been spotted in the distant universe. This undead galaxy stopped forming stars for 20 million years before coming back to life in a burst of...
How SpaceX Will Turn a Workhorse Vehicle into a Hulking Destroyer of Space StationsSpaceX will supercharge its Dragon capsule to send the International Space Station to a watery retirementBy Meghan Bartels In just a handful of years, a beefed-up version...
The High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor Pebble-Bed Module (HTR-PM) in Shandong, ChinaChina Huaneng Group A large-scale nuclear power station in China is the first in the world to be completely impervious to dangerous meltdowns, even during a full loss of external power....
London is surrounded by a green beltJonathan Wilson / Alamy Stock Photo Preserving a “green belt” of countryside around urban areas helps keep cities cool during the hottest times of the year, suggesting that new UK plans to build on...
Stingrays Move Thousands of Tons of Sand on the Seafloor per YearIn search of snacks, stingrays' feeding technique supports ecosystems by rearranging the underwater geographyBy Jeanne TimmonsDrone imagery of a fever of Estuary Stingrays feeding in seagrass meadows. With their...
