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The Soviet Zond 3 Lunar Flyby: Revealing the Rest of the Far Side

3 weeks ago

from Drew Ex Machina in science

Naturally, the early history of space exploration is filled with firsts. Just six decades ago at this time, the world watched as NASA’s Mariner 4...

Clearcutting Can Lead to Devastating Floods, But It Doesn’t Have To

3 weeks ago

from Yale E360 in science

It has long been understood that clearcutting forests leads to more runoff, worsening flooding. But a new study finds that logging can reshape...

A New Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

3 weeks ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

A team of mathematicians based in Vienna is developing tools to extend the scope of general relativity. The post A New Geometry for...

A $50 million foundation model to predict earthquakes

3 weeks ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

Achieving a 10-minute warning would save thousands of lives

Ice Recovered from European Alps Holds 12,000-Year Record of History

3 weeks ago

from Yale E360 in science

Glacial ice offers a detailed record of the atmosphere, preserved in discrete layers, providing researchers with a valuable tool for studying human...

The Hidden Engineering of Floating Bridges

3 weeks ago

from Blog - Practical Engineering in science

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In the early 1900s, Seattle was a growing city hemmed in by geography. To the...

Drop in Air Pollution Drove a Surge in Warming, Study Finds

3 weeks ago

from Yale E360 in science

Scientists have been scrambling to make sense of a recent acceleration in warming, which may be attributable, they say, to changes in solar output or...

RNA Is the Cell’s Emergency Alert System

3 weeks ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

How does a cell know when it’s been damaged? A molecular alarm, set off by mutated RNA and colliding ribosomes, signals danger. The post...

Trump’s Logging Push Thrusts a Dagger at the Heart of Wilderness

4 weeks ago

from Yale E360 in science

Alaska’s Tongass is the world’s largest temperate rainforest and a sanctuary for wildlife. The Trump administration’s plan to rescind a rule banning...

The Biggest-Ever Digital Camera Is This Cosmologist’s Magnum Opus

4 weeks ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ready to study dark...

US science funding - now time to push on the House appropriators

4 weeks ago

from nanoscale views in science

Some not-actively-discouraging news out of Washington DC yesterday: The Senate appropriations committee is doing its markups of the various funding...

In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month

4 weeks ago

from Yale E360 in science

For the first time, solar was the largest source of electricity in the EU last month, supplying a record 22 percent of the bloc's power. Read more on...

Stian Westlake on the intangible economy and paying for social science

4 weeks ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

Episode two of The Works in Progress Podcast is out now

Announcing…our next event this fall!!! And other fun stuff!! | Out-Of-Pocket

4 weeks ago

from Out-of-Pocket Blog in science

Calling all the builders

How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science?

4 weeks ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Elfatih Eltahir explains why we need more local and social data, like disease spread and population growth, to better predict and address...

In Pakistan, a Solar Revolution Is Bringing Power to the People

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

Fed up with pricey electricity from an unreliable grid, Pakistanis have gobbled up cheap solar panels. In an interview, Muhammad Mustafa Amjad, of...

Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption schemes. The...

What's new in biology, summer 2025 edition

a month ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

The first gonorrhea vaccination program, contact lenses that see infrared light, the protein behind sweet tastes, a baby cured with gene therapy, and...

Koalas Spend Just 10 Minutes a Day on the Ground — That's Usually When They're Killed

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

Koalas, which spend most of their lives high up in eucalyptus trees, usually die while on the ground, often mauled by dogs or hit by cars. More...

New updates + tetrahedra, tunneling times, and more

a month ago

from nanoscale views in science

Here are a number of items from the past week or so that I think readers of this blog might find interesting: Essentially all the news pertaining to...

In Uganda, Deadly Landslides Force an Agricultural Reckoning

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

As growing populations denude its slopes and heavy rain intensifies, Mount Elgon has become increasingly vulnerable to landslides. In response,...

Common ROI mistakes in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket

a month ago

from Out-of-Pocket Blog in science

Plus some benchmark ROI numbers for you to think about

New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems. The post...

With 'Big Beautiful Bill,' U.S. to Reverse Course on Clean Energy

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

The Republican spending bill, signed into law Friday, will reset the course for the U.S. energy sector, analyses show. The law rapidly phases out tax...

The Real Risk of AI

a month ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is unavoidable. It’s now a part of our daily lives as it has been steadily infiltrating the technology we use every day,...

How Smell Guides Our Inner World

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that enter your nose and the...

This 1945 TV Console Showed Two Programs at Once

a month ago

from IEEE Spectrum in science

As I try to write this article, my friend and I have six different screens attached to three types of devices. We’re working in the same room but on...

The end of lead

a month ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

How a single taxi ride saved millions of lives

Meta Said A.I. Could Help Tackle Warming. An Early Experiment Underwhelmed

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

Last year Meta identified 135 materials that could potentially be used to draw down carbon dioxide, work it described as "groundbreaking." But when...

Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in...

A Decade After a Lead Crisis, Flint Has At Last Replaced Its Pipes

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

A decade after Flint, Michigan, was beset by widespread lead contamination, officials confirmed the city has replaced its lead pipes, as ordered by a...

The Hidden Engineering of Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers

a month ago

from Blog - Practical Engineering in science

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] There’s a new trend in high-rise building design. Maybe you’ve seen this in your...

London Inches Closer to Running Transit System Entirely on Renewable Power

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

Under a new agreement, London will source enough solar power to run its light railway and tram networks entirely on renewable energy. Read more on...

Science slow down - not a simple question

a month ago

from nanoscale views in science

I participated in a program about 15 years ago that looked at science and technology challenges faced by a subset of the US government. I came away...

Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an...

Animals Adapting to Cities

a month ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

Humans are dramatically changing the environment of the Earth in many ways. Only about 23% of the land surface (excluding Antarctica) is considered to...

Cryogenic CMOS - a key need for solid state quantum information processing

a month ago

from nanoscale views in science

The basis for much of modern electronics is a set of silicon technologies called CMOS, which stands for complementary metal oxide semiconductor...

Why U.S. Geothermal May Advance, Despite Political Headwinds

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

The Trump administration is outwardly hostile to clean energy sourced from solar and wind. But thanks to close ties to the fossil fuel industry and...

When Did Nature Burst Into Vivid Color?

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see...

Samuel Hughes on The Great Downzoning

a month ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

Episode one of The Works in Progress Podcast is out now

City Lights Extend Growing Season for Urban Trees

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

From New York to Paris to Beijing, urban trees are enjoying an extra-long growing season, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →

How Does Graph Theory Shape Our World?

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Maria Chudnovsky reflects on her journey in graph theory, her groundbreaking solution to the long-standing perfect graph problem, and the unexpected...

RFK Jr.’s Attack on Vaccines

a month ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer. He will protest that, but it’s a dodge. He basically lied (and it was quite transparent) to the senate confirmation...

How to measure ROI in healthcare (the right way) | Out-Of-Pocket

a month ago

from Out-of-Pocket Blog in science

The good, better, and best way to do it (+ a calculator)

The first non-opioid painkiller

a month ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

Journavx was approved this year. Why did it take so long to develop?

Planned EV Battery Plant Threatens Uncontacted Tribe in Indonesia

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

A planned EV battery factory in Indonesia poses a grave threat to an uncontacted tribe, a watchdog warns. Read more on E360 →

A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up

a month ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. ...

New Telescope to Take Movie of Entire Sky

a month ago

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources in science

Astronomers unveiled first pictures from the amazing Rubin Observatory, which is getting ready to take the deepest, widest movie of the entire...

Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant: a review of Skibidi Toilet

a month ago

from Eukaryote Writes Blog in science

Art has died and been reborn a thousand times now. Join me at its graveside once again. Let us speak a few words for what once was. Let us imagine the...

As Wind and Solar Grow, China Ships More Coal Overseas

a month ago

from Yale E360 in science

A slowing economy and the rapid growth of wind and solar have blunted demand for coal in China. Increasingly, producers are selling coal...