Top Website for Crucial U.S. Climate Information Goes Dark Links to the U.S.’s most comprehensive climate reports—the National Climate Assessments—disappeared from the Internet on Monday, along with the official government website that houses them By Chelsea Harvey & E&E News As night falls on the eastern U. S. Hurricane Ian can be seen moving slowly…
A modern recreation of garum, a fermented fish sauce dating back to Roman times Alexander Mychko / Alamy Fermented fish sauce, or garum, was an incredibly popular condiment throughout the Roman Empire. For the first time, ancient DNA – scraped from vats used to produce the sauce – has revealed exactly which fish species went…
See The 4 Books Scientific American Loved Reading In June Here’s a collection of exclusive book recommendations, from slithering snakes to a river’s impact, for your summer reading lists, curated by Scientific American By Brianne Kane edited by Andrea Gawrylewski Malte Mueller/Getty Images Summer reading is a time-honored tradition. The experience of diving into a…
An artist’s impression of the MethaneSAT satellite Environmental Defense Fund/NASA A satellite known as MethaneSAT, anticipated to transform our view of methane emissions, has lost power less than a year and a half after it was launched. MethaneSAT is “likely not recoverable”, according to a statement from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the non-profit organisation…
GLP-1 drugs may possess a new power: Easing migraines. In a small, preliminary study, a GLP-1 drug nearly halved the number of days people spent with a migraine in a given month. The results, presented June 21 at the European Academy of Neurology Congress in Helsinki, Finland, expand the possible benefits of the powerful new…
As president, Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire for a U.S. rapprochement with Russia, in distinct contrast with the policies of previous administrations. On June 16, for instance, he called Russia’s expulsion from the elite Group of Seven (G7) forum of major advanced economies a “mistake.” (The nation was expelled in 2014…
Antarctic sea ice cover in recent summers has been far below historical levels Nature Picture Library / Alamy The collapsing sea ice around the Antarctic continent has led to a doubling in the number of icebergs calving from ice sheets and a surge in sea temperatures, and the impacts are growing more severe as heat…
Exploding stars V462 Lupi and V572 Velorum are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere. One has been spotted from the United States.
A drug that outperforms placebo in helping people to lose weight is one of a growing number of next-generation obesity drugs being produced in China. At first, Chinese pharmaceutical companies rushed to make similar versions of blockbuster weight-loss drugs, such as Wegovy and Ozempic, that have taken the world by storm. Nowadays, China is emerging…
3D models of the skulls from a modern human and from a Neanderthal Courtesy of Kimberly Anne Plomp A skull abnormality that squeezes the lower brain, often causing headaches and other neurological problems, might be part of our genetic inheritance from Neanderthals. People with Chiari malformations have a smaller and flatter base of the skull…
