On Saturday ’71 fires were declared in agricultural and forestry regions’ across Greece over just 12 hours. Greece on Sunday raised its wildfire alert level to “high risk” after dozens of blazes broke out, the civil protection ministry said. On Saturday, “71 fires were declared in agricultural and forestry regions across the country in 12 … Read more
A total solar eclipse will be seen across the United States in April 2024 — this was a view of the 2017 eclipse in Oregon. When a rare total solar eclipse sweeps across North America on Monday, scientists will be able to gather invaluable data on everything from the sun’s atmosphere to strange animal behaviors—and … Read more
People preparing to watch Monday’s total eclipse of the sun need to protect their vision during the event, eye doctors say. Powerful ultraviolet rays can do permanent damage to the eyes if people look directly at the sun as the moon is sliding into place before it, said Starr Schroeder, an emergency department nurse at … Read more
The verdicts will be unprecedented. Europe’s top rights court will on Tuesday issue unprecedented verdicts in three separate cases on the responsibility of states in the face of global warming, rulings that could force governments to adopt more ambitious climate policies. The European Court of Human Rights, part of the 46-member Council of Europe, will … Read more
On Monday, tens of millions of spectators across Mexico, the United States and Canada will witness the Moon completely obscure the Sun’s light, a rare celestial spectacle that won’t be visible for most of North America again until 2044. Just a single, unguarded glance at a solar eclipse can result in a lifetime of vision … Read more
This image captures the moon passing in front of the sun during an eclipse on Jan. 30, 2014, seen in space by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: NASA/SDO As the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, draws closer, a vibrant community of enthusiastic amateur radio operators, known as “hams,” is gearing up for an … Read more
DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. In the magnified section, it is easy to see the underlying structure of matter in our universe. Credit: Claire Lamman/DESI collaboration; custom colormap package by cmastro The universe is still … Read more
Overview of the UTR-LM model for 5′ UTR function prediction and design. Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-024-00823-9 The same class of artificial intelligence that made headlines coding software and passing the bar exam has learned to read a different kind of text—the genetic code. That code contains instructions for all of life’s functions … Read more
Credit: NASA Europa is one of the largest of more than 90 moons in orbit around the planet Jupiter. It is also one of the best places to look for alien life. Often termed an “ocean world” by scientists, observations to date strongly suggest that beneath Europa’s icy crust, there could be a liquid saltwater … Read more
Physicists from five Rice University laboratories and more than a dozen collaborating institutions have discovered a way to use heat to switch crystals of iron, germanium and tellurium between two topological phases where quantum bits of information, or qubits, could potentially be stored. The researchers showed that empty atomic sites in the crystals’ lattice are … Read more
