October 31, 20242 min readCatastrophic Floods in Spain Kill at Least 95 PeopleTorrential rain, made worse by climate change, has lashed Spain, with Valencia bearing the brunt of the floodwatersBy Seb Starcevic, Karl Mathiesen & E&E NewsCars are piled in...
A power substation near a data centre in VirginiaNathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images Silicon Valley’s scramble to build more data centres could boost US gas demand by the equivalent of another New York State or California within a decade, with...
Around 1.1 billion people live around lakes that freezemktotoro/iStockphoto/Getty Images Like melting sea ice and glaciers, the frozen sheets that cover lakes are vanishing, too. Lake ice loss has accelerated over the past 25 years, with lakes in the northern...
The UK was forced to ration sugar during the second world warFox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Sugar rationing during and after the second world war seems to have improved the health of people conceived in the UK at the time, cutting...
Simulations suggest that when a quantum battery shares a quantum state with the device it is powering, the device can gain more charge than was stored in the battery to begin with Source link...
Waymo self driving taxi driving in downtown San FranciscoShutterstock/Iv-olga I took my first ride in a Waymo robotaxi last month, and now I’m obsessed. I have taken five autonomous car rides since, and even convinced two reluctant friends to do...
An off-the-shelf millimetre wave sensor can pick out the tiny vibrations made by a smartphone's speaker, enabling an AI model to transcribe the conversation, even at a distance in a noisy room Source link...
A skeleton from a Gallo-Roman grave in Belgium is made up of bones from at least seven individualsPhotograph courtesy of Paumen, Wargnies, and Demory; Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles A complete skeleton found in a Gallo-Roman grave in western Belgium is not a...
October 31, 20244 min readZoetrope Animation Is Back. Here’s How to Make OnePut your own spin on a zoetrope with homemade drawings—or carve one into a pumpkinBy Charlotte HuA zoetrope takes advantage of human psychology and physiology to make physical...
October 31, 20244 min readVote for a Healthy Climate for Our ChildrenThe 2024 presidential election will have enormous consequences for the climate, and the health and future of childrenBy Frederica PereraTourists walked on the National Mall as smoke from wildfires...
