If you think climate change is a hoax, you might believe wind turbines poison groundwater. When Donald Trump recently claimed, during what was supposed to be a press conference about a European Union trade deal, that wind turbines were a “con job” that drive whales “loco,” kill birds and…
Words you’ll never speak still cause activity in the brain’s speech centers. Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle actions that produce it. A patient…
The company claims that a text query now burns the equivalent of 9 seconds of TV. So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that…
The X-37B spaceplane is flying missions few would have foreseen when the program began. The US military’s reusable winged spaceship rocketed back into orbit Thursday night atop a SpaceX rocket, kicking off a mission that will, among other things, demonstrate how future spacecraft can navigate without relying on GPS…
Neuroscientists find people who don’t enjoy music, study their brain activity. “I was talking with my colleagues at a conference 10 years ago and I just casually said that everyone loves music,” recalls Josep Marco Pallarés, a neuroscientist at the University of Barcelona. But it was a statement he…
“There’s really something special about the way moon jellies swim.” Climate change is warming ocean waters, making the environment more acidic thanks to the absorption of carbon monoxide from the atmosphere. This endangers various marine species, and monitoring those changes is vitally important. But it can be challenging to…
The ruling also blocks the policy behind their termination. Shortly after the Trump Administration took office, it started cancelling grants for things it had disagreements with: funding for pandemic preparation, efforts to diversify the scientific workforce, those that targeted minority health issues, and more. These terminations were challenged in…
Brutal treatment may have been part of “public theater of violence” celebrating victory in battle. A local Neolithic community in northeastern France may have clashed with foreign invaders, cutting off limbs as war trophies and otherwise brutalizing their prisoners of war, according to a new paper published in the…
Town pitches companies to take advantage of “reliable, cost-effective heating and cooling.” This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Hayden, a small town in the mountains of northwest Colorado, is…
Reengineered, pollen could become a range of eco-friendly objects. At first glance, Nam-Joon Cho’s lab at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University looks like your typical research facility—scientists toiling away, crowded workbenches, a hum of machinery in the background. But the orange-yellow stains on the lab coats slung on hooks hint…
