Poison or poverty: the impossible economic choices facing Ghana’s e-waste workers
Agbogbloshie, in Ghana’s capital city, Accra, is a sprawling, open-air scrapyard located next to a lagoon and a…
August 2026 lunar eclipse — Everything you need to know about the 96% ‘blood moon’
On Aug. 27-28, 2026, a very deep partial lunar eclipse will be visible from Europe, Africa, North America…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is blasting out a bunch of methane. Here’s why that’s weird
Methane has been seen spewing from comet 3I/ATLAS, marking the first time that the gas has been identified…
Ocean conservation needs strong relationships, not just targets
With World Oceans Day coming up on June 8, policymakers and researchers will be thinking about the state…
Jamie Dimon Rolls Out Red Carpet for Elon Musk Ahead of SpaceX’s IPO
Wall Street is going all out to sell SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO. Elon Musk’s rocket company kicked off its…
Are Days Getting Longer? Scientists Say Earth Rotation Is Slowing By Tiny Amounts
Days on Earth are getting longer, but nobody should expect an extra hour of sleep, a longer workday…
As cities grow unbearably hot, UNEP chief backs passive cooling over ACs as smarter fix
India’s cities are growing unbearable each summer, and it is the most vulnerable—the informal workers, the elderly, pregnant…
In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat two days after she and Carl Sagan agreed to marry, and NASA pressed the compressed minute onto Voyager’s Golden Record as a private love signal now more than 25 billion kilometres from Earth
On June 3, 1977, Ann Druyan sat for an hour-long recording session in New York while instruments captured…
Pigeons’ immune system can sense Earth’s magnetic field, study suggests – Physics World
Pigeons’ immune system can sense Earth’s magnetic field, study suggests – Physics World Skip to main content Discover…
After 11 years at Mars, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper
“Over the life of the mission, MAVEN supported more than 8 percent of all of our relay sessions…
Physicists make quantum mechanics breakthrough
Physicists put a single chunk of metal into two places at once, the largest object ever shown to…
AI models are teaching each other ‘violent and antisocial’ traits through hidden data signals, study finds — and scientists can’t figure out why
Large language models (LLMs) are secretly teaching each other unwanted habits through seemingly benign training data, scientists say.…