Category Science

December 17, 2024 4 min read Book Review: This Relationship Shaped Rachel Carson’s Environmental Ethos The connection between queer love and the power to imagine a more sustainable future By Brooke Borel NONFICTION Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer…

The cargo sailing ship Anemos made its first transatlantic voyage in 2024 Ronan Gladu/TOWT By any measure, the world isn’t reducing greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to stay in line with climate targets and avoid dangerous levels of global warming.…

December 17, 2024 4 min read To Monitor Greenhouse Gas Emissions Nationwide, U.S. Enlists Passenger Plane United Airlines is partnering with NOAA as part of a wider federal strategy to better keep tabs on the country’s greenhouse gas emissions By…

Tree planting projects help tackle the climate crisis, but they can also impact water supplies Costfoto/NurPhoto The major environmental, social and economic crises facing the world today – involving biodiversity, climate change, health, food and water – are inextricably interlinked,…

People tend to have the sense that their inner thoughts and feelings are much richer than what they are capable of expressing in real time. Elon Musk has spoken publicly about this “bandwidth problem,” as he described it to podcaster…

Molecular testing can be used to assess drink quality Evgenii Parilov/Alamy Drinks manufacturers and consumers may soon have a small, portable kit, not much bigger than a covid test, to check the quality and safety of alcoholic beverages. The device…

I routinely control my own dreams. During a recent episode, in my dream laboratory, my experience went like this: I was asleep on a twin mattress in the dark lab room, wrapped in a cozy duvet and a blanket of…

A reconstruction of the oldest known gorgonopsian Henry Sutherland Sharpe The oldest known sabre-toothed animal hunted large prey 270 million years ago – and its newly discovered remains could help us unravel how early mammal relatives became warm-blooded. The first…

December 17, 2024 5 min read Silicon Valley Is Reviving the Discredited and Discriminatory Idea of ‘Race Science’ Scientific racism today must be seen and rejected for what it truly is—a hollow attempt to dress discrimination in the garb of…

An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, her doctors announced Tuesday. Towana Looney, 53, is off of kidney dialysis after undergoing the procedure at NYU Langone Health on November…