Greenhouse gas missions have driven 1.44°C of warming since pre-industrial times Chris Conway/Getty Images The world could see its first year of warming above 2°C by the end of the decade, leading climate scientists have warned for the first time. Each year, researchers at the Met Office – the UK’s national weather service – use…
The shore of the river Thames in London, close to where the woman’s remains were found Crispin Hughes/Alamy A woman was tortured for days, killed and then put on display at the side of the river Thames in central London around 1200 years ago. The case is thought to be one of the only examples…
Kristin Kramer woke up early on a Tuesday morning 10 years ago because one of her dogs needed to go out. Then, a couple of odd things happened. When she tried to call her other dog, “I couldn’t speak,” she said. As she walked downstairs to let them into the yard, “I noticed that my…
Weather forecasts based on AI are faster and sometimes more accurate than traditional ones, but they may miss rare and unprecedented weather events – which are becoming more common as the climate changes
The earliest cities may have had plenty of parasitic, six-legged tenants. Common bedbugs (Cimex lectularius) experienced a dramatic jump in population size around the time humans congregated in the first cities. The wee bloodsuckers were probably the first insect pests to flourish in a city environment and possibly one of the first urban pests overall,…
CLIMATEWIRE | The clean energy transition may soon be on its own. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed last week by the House would effectively end most clean energy tax credits, reversing a large chunk of former President Joe Biden’s climate agenda. Wind and solar projects would need to begin construction within 60 days…
Because we live our lives entirely in our own heads, understanding the contents of someone else’s — and how radically their experience might differ from our own — is hard. New research, though, is revealing just how diverse the human imagination can be. Take the concept of a “mind’s eye”. You might take being able…
Jonathan Knowles / Brett Ryder When did you last imagine? Very recently is the likely answer. Indeed, we spend as much as a quarter to a half of our waking lives daydreaming. Perhaps counterintuitively, though, our imagination isn’t a single thing. Rather, the latest research suggests it exists in at least four forms. 1. Reproductive imagination…
A projectile point, made from the bone of a grey whale, from the Duruthy rock shelter in Landes, France Alexandre Lefebvre Hunter-gatherers living along the shores of the Bay of Biscay crafted hunting tools from the bones of at least five different whale species 20,000 years ago, marking the oldest evidence of manufacturing objects from…
Western Europeans crafted hunting weapons out of bones from whales stranded on the Atlantic shoreline between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago, researchers report May 27 in Nature Communications. Previously excavated finds at Stone Age cave and rock–shelter sites running from northwestern Spain to southwestern France, some located as far as about 300 kilometers inland, represent…
