Farm workers exposed to infected dairy cattle have been found to carry bird flu antibodiesHelen King/Getty Images There may be more bird flu cases in humans in the US than we previously thought. Health departments in two states took blood...
November 7, 20245 min readRainwater Could Help Satisfy AI’s Water DemandsA few dozen ChatGPT queries cost a bottle’s worth of water. Tech firms should consider simpler solutions, like harvesting rainwater, to meet AI’s needsBy Justin Talbot Zorn & Bettina Warburg...
November 7, 20244 min readWe Need Scientific Brainstorming about Shared Global DangersIt is difficult to disentangle Russian and Chinese scientists from international science cooperation. That is a good thingBy Frank N. von HippelIn 1958, Soviet and Western scientists met in...
November 7, 20244 min readParents Labeling a Kid’s Friend a Bad Influence Can Backfire Is your kid in trouble? Blaming their friends is ill advisedBy Francine Russo Olga Rolenko/Getty ImagesParents have always blamed their teens’ misbehavior on their kids’ friends:...
November 7, 20242 min readEarth Will Exceed 1.5 Degrees Celsius of Warming This YearThis year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass the 1.5-degree-Celsius threshold laid out in the Paris climate accordBy Andrea Thompson...
Certain knots, like this trefoil, can be formed from vortices in a quantum fluidLogin/Shutterstock By manipulating a quantum fluid, researchers could form liquid knots that never unravel. These could help us shed light on odd quantum objects from the dawn...
Sheep skulls modified by ancient Egyptians so that their horns grew upward instead of outwardB. De Cupere Sheep with deformed horns are among the more mysterious animal remains discovered at an ancient Egyptian burial site dating back to around 3700...
Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s atmosphere at 60,000 kilometres per hour and...
Chronic pain has increased among adults in the US since 2019, which could be due to a rise in sedentary lifestyles or reduced access to healthcare amid covid-19 restrictions Source link...
When it comes to natural disasters, most are impossible to predict more than a few months or even days ahead of time – you can’t say “an earthquake is going to hit in two years, let’s prepare”. However, one of...
