Leo Wilson 
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 2023, as floodwaters rushed toward the San Joaquin Valley city of Corcoran—home to roughly 20,000 people and a sprawling maximum-security state prison—emergency workers and desperate local officials begged the state for help raising their levee. Corcoran had been sinking, steadily, for years because of persistent over-pumping of groundwater by major … Read more
After multiple deployments with the US Army Special Forces, Joe Hudak returned home in 2011 changed by his time in Iraq, Afghanistan, and South America. He was quickly diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. He tried talk therapy and a range of medications, but they didn’t help. He attempted suicide twice in 2012. “I was fighting … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley sought to make amends for her recent failure to cite slavery as a principle cause of the Civil War – but ended up digging herself a … Read more
Overwhelming fear, sweaty palms, shortness of breath, rapid heart rate — these are the symptoms of a panic attack, which people with panic disorder have frequently and unexpectedly. Creating a map of the regions, neurons, and connections in the brain that mediate these panic attacks can provide guidance for developing more effective panic disorder therapeutics. … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Six months ago, an explosion ripped apart Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine, unleashing floods that killed 58 people, devastated the landscape along the Dnipro River and cut off water to productive farmland. The destruction of the dam— which Ukrainian officials and the European Parliament blame on Russia, even though the structure was … Read more
Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Thursday sued a US labor board to block its case accusing the company of illegally firing employees who sent a letter to company executives calling its CEO, Elon Musk, “a distraction and embarrassment”. In a lawsuit filed in Brownsville, Texas, federal court, SpaceX claims the structure of the National … Read more
Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news David Warner has said he is “relieved” to be reunited with his baggy green Australian cricket cap midway through his final Test match. The opener … Read more
Breakthrough could dramatically cut the use of pesticides and unlock other opportunities to bolster plant health Scientists have engineered the microbiome of plants for the first time, boosting the prevalence of ‘good’ bacteria that protect the plant from disease. The findings published in Nature Communications by researchers from the University of Southampton, China and Austria, … Read more
Left: Incidence of asthma-related emergency room visits by children in New York City neighborhoods, along with air quality data collected by a FRESH Air site in one of those neighborhoods. Right: One of the sensors distributed among schools and community centers as part of FRESH Air. Credit: Stephen Holler Climate change is one of the … Read more
Twilight is falling in the Ecuadorian jungle when the two scientists spot their first zombie. The smell of damp earth and vegetation rises as Alan Rockefeller takes slow, careful steps, scanning the forest floor with an ultraviolet light. Suddenly, a fragment of undergrowth glows: strands of luminous cordyceps, turned fluorescent by the torch. Dubbed the … Read more
