January 13, 20253 min readWhat Makes Urban Wildfire Smoke So ToxicWildfires burning in cities unleash a toxic, unpredictable combination of compounds into the airBy Allison Parshall edited by Dean VisserSmoke over destroyed homes in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire...
The structure of Mars’s core could solve some mysteries about the Red PlanetShutterstock/AlexLMX Mars may have a solid inner core within its liquid outer core, according to a new analysis of the planet’s seismic activity. This could help solve several...
The tattooed hand of a 1200-year-old mummy from PeruMichael Pittman and Thomas G Kaye The intricate details of tattoos inked more than 1200 years ago have been made visible by scanning South American mummies with lasers. The mummies, belonging to...
Meta owns social media platforms including Facebook and InstagramJRdes / Shutterstock In 2024, Meta allowed more than 3300 pornographic ads – many featuring AI-generated content – on its social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. The findings come from a...
Around one million Americans may develop some form of dementia every year by 2060, according to a study published on Monday in Nature Medicine. The latest forecast suggests a massive and harrowing increase from annual cases predicted for 2020, in...
January 13, 20253 min readPhotos Show Why Los Angeles Fires Were the Worst in City’s HistoryThe ferocity and scale of the fires that tore through the Los Angeles area become clearer in photographsBy Andrea Thompson & Amanda Stosz A home...
Artist’s depiction of a white dwarf orbiting the supermassive black hole 1ES 1927+654Aurore Simonnet/Sonoma State University Strange vibrations emanating from a supermassive black hole appear to be growing more frequent and they could be caused by a white dwarf star...
As planets go, Mercury is a world of extremes – and one that doesn’t always make a great deal of sense. Its iron core is absurdly and inexplicably huge. Despite its searing temperature, it has ice trapped at its poles....
January 13, 20254 min readExotic ‘Paraparticles’ That Defy Categorization May Exist in Many DimensionsTheoretical physicists predict the existence of exotic “paraparticles” that defy classification and could have quantum computing applicationsBy Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazine Particles known as fermions (shown...
Preparing cancer patients for difficult decisions is an oncologist’s job. They don’t always remember to do it, however. At the University of Pennsylvania Health System, doctors are nudged to talk about a patient’s treatment and end-of-life preferences by an artificially...
