The Ronne ice shelf in West Antarctica survived a warm period long ago MODIS/ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock A major ice shelf in Antarctica appears to have survived a period of hot temperatures more than 120,000 years ago, indicating that the West Antarctic…
President Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public health expertise, as secretary of Health and Human Services. Two Senate committees will question Kennedy this week on how his disproven views…
Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images In the late 18th century, mathematician and physicist Joseph-Louis Lagrange made a shocking discovery: his star student, a Monsieur Le Blanc, was actually a woman. Lagrange taught at France’s École Polytechnique, which allowed…
The deserts of Utah are notorious for supposed alien visitations, but a real extraterrestrial emissary that parachuted to a soft landing there in September 2023 is proving more impactful. Onboard the truck-tire-size capsule from space was invaluable cargo: more than…
DeepSeek’s chatbot sent shockwaves through the tech industry ifeelstock/Alamy Since the boom in artificial intelligence got under way, US tech bosses have demanded a vast expansion of data centres and energy infrastructure to support further progress and widespread uptake of…
January 29, 2025 5 min read RFK Jr., Confirmation Hearing Showed 5 Ways He Threatens Public Health From Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s views on vaccines to Medicaid, here are some ways his nomination for head of the Department of Health and…
For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site X on Tuesday evening to make a perplexing space-based pronouncement. “The @POTUS has asked @SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on…
Ice crystals can’t stick to polar bear fur Asifphotographer1/Shutterstock Polar bears have a hidden-in-a-plain-sight superpower that anyone who has watched a wildlife documentary could have spotted: ice doesn’t stick to their fur. This has long been known to Indigenous peoples…
January 29, 2025 4 min read What Trump’s First Days Say about Science in the New Administration Trump seems intent on freezing out professional scientists, especially those with strong academic research backgrounds. Instead, he is stocking the leadership of federal…
Simulating turbulent air flow accurately is vital for weather forecasts EUMETSAT/ESA Quantum-inspired algorithms can simulate turbulent fluid flows on a classical computer much faster than existing tools, slashing computation times from several days on a large supercomputer to just hours…
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