Join us Tuesday, December 16, at 2 pm ET to hear from leaders who resigned in protest. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in critical condition. This year, the premier public health agency had its funding brutally cut and staff gutted, its mission sabotaged, and its headquarters…
There’s a less than 5 percent chance that earlier anomalies can be explained by fourth neutrino “flavor.” Since the 1990s, physicists have pondered the tantalizing possibility of an exotic fourth type of neutrino, dubbed the “sterile” neutrino, that doesn’t interact with regular matter at all, apart from its fellow…
If NASA is serious about exploring Mars, it’s past time to send new missions. NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission is running…
We didn’t start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.) Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 years ago in what’s now Suffolk, England. Based on chemical analysis of the sediment at the site, along with the telltale…
The “arbitrary and capricious” standard strikes down another administration action. On Monday, US District Court Judge Patti Saris vacated a Trump executive order that brought a halt to all offshore wind power development, as well as some projects on land. That order had called for the suspension of all…
Backed by powerful corporations, nations are giving public false choices: Environmental protection or economic growth. Despite claims of environmental leadership and promises to preserve the Amazon rainforest ahead of COP30, Brazil is stripping away protections for the region’s vital ecosystems faster than workers dismantled the tents that housed the…
Latest results from a recently discovered ancient Roman construction site confirm earlier findings. Back in 2023, we reported on MIT scientists’ conclusion that the ancient Romans employed “hot mixing” with quicklime, among other strategies, to make their famous concrete, giving the material self-healing functionality. The only snag was that…
Dog behavior is a lot more complicated than any one gene variant. Popular genetics tests can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality, according to a recent study. A team of geneticists recently found no connection between simple genetic variants and behavioral traits in more than 3,200 dogs, even…
The port will revolutionize global trade, but it’s sparking destructive rainforest routes. CHANCAY, Peru—The elevator doors leading to the fifth-floor control center open like stage curtains onto a theater-sized screen. This “Operations Productivity Dashboard” instantaneously displays a battery of data: vehicle locations, shipping times, entry times, loading data, unloading…
Volcanic eruptions in the mid-1340s triggered a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe. The Black Death ravaged medieval Western Europe, ultimately wiping out roughly one-third of the population. Scientists have identified the bacterium responsible and its likely origins, but certain specifics of how and why…
