TikTok is a video-sharing social media platformAnatolii Babii / Alamy A US law banning the popular video-sharing app TikTok is set to take effect at the start of 2025 – but the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear TikTok’s...
Particles in ship exhaust inadvertently cause cloud brightening – some geoengineering projects would try to recreate this effectNASA’s Earth Obervatory How would the world react if one country launched a solar geoengineering project to cool the planet without the permission...
December 20, 20242 min readRun, Lucy, Run! Human Ancestors Could Jog but Not Very Far or Fast3D models of Australopithecus afarensis hint at the muscular adaptations that made modern humans better runnersBy Gemma Conroy & Nature magazine A sculptor's rendering of the...
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos—men dominate the tech industry. In 2021 men made up 75 percent of employed computer scientists and 84 percent of employed engineers in the U.S.And that’s cause for concern. Consider the misuse of...
Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. A livestock veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin, Poulsen had seen sick cows before, with their noses dripping and...
December 20, 20242 min readAncient Moon Melt Event May Explain 150-Million-Year Gap in Age EstimatesThe moon may have melted 4.35 billion years ago—explaining a lunar age mysteryBy Payal Dhar edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Javier Zayas Photography/Getty ImagesThe moon is...
The orange fur on the underside of Nepenthes pongoides leaves is why the pitcher plant was named after orangutansAlviana Damit A newly described species of pitcher plant, one of the largest and furriest ever found, has been identified on a...
Small website owners say they may be forced to shut downPortra/Getty Images The UK’s new Online Safety Act may result in hundreds of community websites and forums being permanently shut down, as site administrators say they fear the law imposes...
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, snapped by the Perseverance roverNASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS A little helicopter finally met its end this year. NASA’s Ingenuity drone made its 72nd and final flight on Mars in January, damaging one of its rotors on landing, concluding...
Transmission electron micrograph of parts of the norovirus pathogenBSIP SA/Alamy A global international trial of an mRNA vaccine against norovirus is getting underway with the aim of reducing the health burden caused by the infamous “winter vomiting” bug. The trial...
