Fossil fuel industry is worsening Western water scarcity, study finds
In the last few years, multiple studies have shown that global warming is intensifying drought and worsening water…
Could the Northern Lights be visible this week? What to know – NBC Chicago
Could the Northern Lights be visible this week as the U.S. prepares for a partial lunar eclipse? It’s…
Scientists unveil a quantum battery that breaks the rules of conventional charging
Scientists at Australia’s national science agency CSIRO have built a prototype of a quantum battery that charges faster…
Earth’s first few hundred million years brought relentless impacts, intense volcanism and an atmosphere almost entirely devoid of oxygen—yet genetic analysis places the common ancestor of all life alive today around 4.2 billion years ago, suggesting biology gained a foothold remarkably soon after the planet became habitable.
Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago, collided with the body that helped make the Moon and cooled…
The policy relevance of climate-change scenarios for biodiversity research
Pörtner, H.-O. et al. Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts. Science 380, eabl4881…
NASA Sets Spacewalk for Station Maintenance, Live Coverage Planned
NASA will provide coverage as two astronauts step outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to…
MIT scientists watched electrons rebuild inside a quantum material; one phase grew like an ice crystal |
Deep inside a crystal cooled to nearly -230°C, MIT physicists have caught something rarely seen in quantum materials:…
From spy satellite to space telescope: The unlikely origins of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope
NASA took the guts out of old spy satellites to build the groundbreaking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope…
Cloud seeding start-up uses drones to generate 19 million gallons
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
Building Foresight for Earth Science, featuring Lindsey Jacobson
NASA’s Earth-observing satellite missions track dozens of features of a changing planet — aerosols, sea levels, land cover,…
Quantum signals escape fiber, travel 13 miles in open air in New York
It may sound surprising, but one of the most stubborn problems in building quantum networks is that cables…
A pet cow has been filmed picking up a handheld brush and flipping it — bristled side against her back and flanks, smooth handle for the sensitive skin of her udder and legs — adjusting her grip by body region, in what researchers call the first documented case of flexible tool use in cattle
Veronika, a thirteen-year-old Swiss Brown cow living on a small organic farm in Nötsch im Gailtal, Austria, picks…