Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Climate scientists have long agreed that humans are largely responsible for climate change. However, people often do not realize how many scientists share this view. A new 27-country study published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour finds that communicating the consensus among scientists can clear up misperceptions and strengthen beliefs about … Read more
With dense smoke drifting across a wide swath of Brazil, several flights have been canceled and travel on some roads has been halted. Brazil was deploying military aircraft as part of a “war” against wildfires ravaging the southeastern state of Sao Paulo, with authorities warning on Sunday that arsonists were setting blazes. Following a crisis … Read more
A humpback whale off Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil in June 2024. The detention in Greenland of anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson pending possible extradition to Japan has turned the spotlight on the widely condemned practice of hunting whales. A 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling allowed numbers to recover following centuries of hunting that decimated the … Read more
This photo provided by NASA shows Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft which launched astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station docked to the Harmony module’s forward port on July 3, 2024, seen from a window on the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft docked to the adjacent port. Credit: NASA via AP NASA decided Saturday … Read more
This photo provided by Spokane Public Schools shows Adams Elementary fifth graders pausing to pose for a photo while painting a mural at Spokane Community College, May 2024, in Spokane, Wash. Credit: Spokane Public Schools via AP Isabella Pires first noticed what she calls the “gradual apathy pandemic” in eighth grade. Only a handful of … Read more
People wade through floodwaters outside a temporary shelter in Feni; more than 307,000 people are in shelters and more than 5.2 million have been affected by the floods. River waters in low-lying Bangladesh are receding after days of deadly floods but 300,000 people are still in emergency shelters requiring aid, disaster officials said Sunday. The … Read more
Coming up empty: French beekeepers are having a ‘black year’ Beekeepers across France say it has been a disastrous year for honey, with bees starving to death and production plummeting by up to 80 percent. Mickael Isambert, a beekeeper in Saint-Ours-les-Roches in central France, lost 70 percent of his honey and had to feed his … Read more
Credit: AI-generated image Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently urged the police to take “all necessary action” in response to unrest across cities and towns in England and Northern Ireland. One of the most contentious tools at the police’s disposal is the Taser—a conducted energy device designed to temporarily incapacitate people with an electrical shock. Bright … Read more
Illustration of the decay topology of a hypernucleus and the variables for the selection criteria. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07823-0 In experiments at the Brookhaven National Lab in the US, an international team of physicists has detected the heaviest “anti-nuclei” ever seen. The tiny, short-lived objects are composed of exotic antimatter particles. The measurements of … Read more
The similarity in composition of new and old lunar samples suggests a magma ocean covered the moon early in its history. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Data from India’s recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the moon. Scientists from the mission have published their new findings in … Read more
