Trump budget cuts would eliminate much of NOAA’s climate research
Environment Proposed cuts would wipe out NOAA’s Ocean and Atmospheric Research office among a raft of other reductions to one of the main scientific agencies of the US By James
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Bronze naval ram from Roman battle recreated using ancient techniques
Humans Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made By
Methane-eating bacteria are ready to capture landfill emissions
Environment Bioreactors housing methane-eating bacteria could offer a portable, off-grid solution for soaking up methane leaks from sites like landfills and coal mines By Madeleine Cuff Facebook / Meta Twitter
Dolphins are dying from toxic chemicals banned since the 1980s
Life Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are commonly found in the bodies of short-beaked common dolphins that get stranded on UK beaches, and are linked to the animals’ risk of infectious diseases
Why Our Brains Crave Ideology
As the lights in the lecture hall slowly brighten, political neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod braces herself for the onslaught of questions from an audience brimming with rising hands—and one clenched fist.
Eastern North America Is a Geological Hotbed
This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine. When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape
HIV, Trans Health, and Covid Research Targeted by Trump Cuts to NIH
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature
Crows Are Surprisingly Good at Geometry
Crows Are Good at Geometry. Don’t Look So Surprised Crows can tell the shapes of stars from those of moons and symmetrical quadrilaterals from unsymmetrical ones, new results show By
JWST Spots Remains of Alien Planet That Fell into a Star
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet By Meghan Bartels edited by Dean Visser NASA’s James
Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’
This discovery adds to a growing list of how animals talk with their urine By Gennaro Tomma edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier EriCatarina/Getty Images Humans typically consider peeing a private
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