Landslide-affected slopes around Barry Arm fjord, Alaska. If the slopes suddenly collapse, scientists fear a large tsunami would hit the town of Whittier, 48km away. Credit: Gabe Wolken / USGS Earthquake scientists detected an unusual signal on monitoring stations used to detect seismic activity during September 2023. We saw it on sensors everywhere, from the … Read more
Tropical forest in Martinique near the city of Fond St-Denis. Credit: Wikipedia Millions of years ago, the climate was much warmer and wetter than today. But exactly how much warmer and wetter? Our research shows that 26 million years ago, the average winter temperature in the UK and Ireland was more than 18°C, about the … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research published in Science shows that for some people who believe in conspiracy theories, a fact-based conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can “pull them out of the rabbit hole.” Better yet, it seems to keep them out for at least two months. This research, carried out by Thomas … Read more
This 2021 handout image released by Indonesia’s environment ministry shows one of two rare Javan rhino calves that were caught on video in Ujung Kulon National Park. This week, a billionaire made a spacewalk, archaeologists found a new, isolated Neanderthal lineage and the James Webb Space Telescope revealed the extreme outskirts of the Milky Way. … Read more
Research showing that pigeons can be used to guide missiles was awarded one of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes. Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ones: these are some of the strange scientific discoveries that won this year’s Ig Nobels, the quirky … Read more
The great whodunnit of the human family is exactly what caused Neanderthals to suddenly die off 40,000 years ago. A new study posits a very surprising answer to one of history’s great mysteries—what killed off the Neanderthals? Could it be that they were unadventurous, insular homebodies who never strayed far enough from home? Scientists studying … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain This summer was the hottest on record worldwide, outpacing even last year’s blistering temperatures, according to a new report by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. “During the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest … Read more
Gardener Jana Kretschmer is working to protect trees from climate change. In the castle gardens of Muskauer Park, which straddles both banks of the German-Polish river border, caretakers have mounted a fightback against the impacts of climate change. On the stump of a 150-year-old oak tree, gnawed by parasites and felled in a storm, a … Read more
US astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams took off aboard Boeing’s Starliner in early June for what was meant to be an eight-day mission. A US astronaut stuck on the International Space Station said Friday he believed Boeing’s Starliner could have carried him home, if more time had been available to work through the beleaguered … Read more
Tunable color emission and application showcase. Credit: Frontiers of Optoelectronics (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s12200-024-00134-2 In the realm of lighting and temperature measurement, advancements in material science are paving the way for significant improvements in technology and safety. Traditional methods, which combine yellow phosphors with blue chips in LEDs, have limitations such as inadequate red light components … Read more
