Top producers are planning to mine and drill even more of the fuels in 2030. The last two years have witnessed the hottest one in history, some of the worst wildfire seasons across Canada, Europe and South America and deadly flooding and heat waves throughout the globe. Over that…
It’s the latest evidence in support of Robert Dudley’s controversial “drunk monkey” hypothesis. In 2014, University of California, Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley wrote a book called The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol. His controversial “drunken monkey hypothesis” proposed that the human attraction to alcohol goes back…
Things have changed since 2009: We’re more certain about the problems. Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was going to reject the work it had done back in 2009, when it first determined that greenhouse gas emissions posed a threat to the US public. While…
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures. Does alcohol enhance one’s foreign language fluency? Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza topping? And can painting cows with zebra stripes help repel biting flies? These and other unusual research questions were honored tonight…
In nuclear era, it has proven cheaper to build offensive weapons than play defense. One thing that’s evident about President Donald Trump’s proposal for the Golden Dome missile defense shield is that designing, deploying, and sustaining it will cost a lot of money, at least several hundred billion dollars,…
Come for the science. Stay for the adorable pics of happy pupsters with their favorite toys. Certain dogs can not only memorize the names of objects like their favorite toys, but they can also extend those labels to entirely new objects with a similar function, regardless of whether or…
President Trump’s assertions about political violence ignore the facts. After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist groups foment political violence in the US, and “they should be put in jail.” “The radical left causes tremendous violence,” he…
Making digits seems to involve gene activity that was needed to make a cloaca. Evolution has adapted the digits of mammals for an enormous range of uses, from our opposable thumbs to the spindly digits that support bat wings to the robust bones that support the hoofs of horses.…
The problem arose early Tuesday when the spacecraft’s main engine shut down earlier than expected. A problem with the main engine on Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft will keep it from delivering 11,000 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station as scheduled on Wednesday. In a…
“We’re excited that Northrop is ready to deliver this incredibly beneficial increase in capacity.” What happens when you use a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus supply ship? A record-setting resupply mission to the International Space Station. The first flight of Northrop’s upgraded Cygnus spacecraft, called…
