Acceptability of rationing and taxation of fossil fuels and high climate-impact foods across countries. Credit: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1057/s41599-024-03823-7 Rationing of goods such as meat and fuel can both effectively and fairly reduce consumption with high climate impact. Almost 40% of the public say they could accept such measures. These are … Read more
Our cameras captured many images of brushtail possums at kangaroo carcasses. Image A) a sole brushtail possum, B) a group of possums feeding on a carcass, C) a confrontation between two brushtail possums at a carcass, D) vigilance at a carcass, E) shows a confrontation between a feral cat and a brushtail possum at a … Read more
Graphical representation of methodology employed to measure microplastic contamination in the North Sea. Credit: Frontiers in Marine Science (2024). DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1430307 Microplastic pollution in the world’s oceans is often illustrated through evocative images of wildlife caught within large items floating on the surface, or microplastics blending in among the sand on otherwise pristine beaches. The … Read more
Credit: Pietro Battistoni from Pexels Europe’s physics lab CERN said Sunday that some 500 scientists linked to Russian institutes will be affected when it stops cooperation with Russia in late November as planned. CERN’s decision-making body agreed in June 2022 to terminate cooperation agreements with Russia and its ally Belarus over the war in Ukraine. … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The actor Gillian Anderson has just released a book of sexual fantasies. Titled Want, it catalogs a diverse range of fantasies submitted anonymously by women from around the world. It is not the first to do so. In 1973, American author Nancy Friday published My Secret Garden, a volume that provoked … Read more
The two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June have welcomed their new ride home with the arrival of a SpaceX capsule. SpaceX launched the rescue mission on Saturday with a downsized crew of two astronauts and two empty seats reserved for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who will return in 2025. WATCH … Read more
Average spectrum of J1023 normalized to the emission of the continuum. The emission lines studied in this work are highlighted. Credit: Messa et al., 2024. Using the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), astronomers from Italy and Spain have carried out high-temporal-resolution optical spectroscopic observations of a transitional millisecond pulsar designated PSR J1023+0038. Results of the observational … Read more
Large swathes of eastern and central Nepal have been inundated since Friday with flash floods reported in several rivers and extensive damage to the country’s highways. Residents of Nepal’s flood-hit capital returned to their mud-caked homes on Sunday to survey the wreckage of devastating floods that have killed at least 104 people across the Himalayan … Read more
This photo provided by The Peregrine Fund and the Bureau of Land Management shows California condors inside a pen before being released on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024 from Vermillion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the Grand Canyon’s North Rim. Credit: The Peregrine Fund and the Bureau of Land Management … Read more
Beach chairs are piled up after Hurricane Helene hit Treasure Island with high surge waters. Michael Ward—who has lived on Treasure Island, off Florida’s Gulf coast, for 33 years—decided to ride out Hurricane Helene despite an order to evacuate. It was a decision he quickly regretted. Instead of going with his wife to a friend’s … Read more
