USDA Reverses Course and Restores Climate Information for Farmers Facing a lawsuit, the Department of Agriculture says it will restore climate-related websites that the agency erased after President Donald Trump took office By Lesley Clark & E&E News Harvesting soybeans in Jarrettsville, Maryland. Edwin Remsberg/Getty Images CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration has reversed course and…
Piri piri or African bird’s eye chilli peppers Steidi/Alamy Accidentally made your food too spicy? One day, you might be able to reach for an “anti-spice” condiment to tame the heat of a dish, thanks to the discovery of chemicals found in chilli peppers that counteract their spicy sensation. A chilli’s heat comes from compounds…
An exceptionally preserved specimen of the ancient bird Archaeopteryx offers the most detailed window yet into the evolution of flight, researchers report online May 14 in Nature. The remarkable preservation of the specimen — the 14th Archaeopteryx ever unearthed — means that researchers can study aspects of the ancient bird that were previously difficult to…
Migraine Drug Ubrogepant Tackles Debilitating Early Symptoms Results from a phase 3 clinical trial suggest that taking ubrogepant at the first sign of an oncoming migraine can prevent preheadache fatigue and light sensitivity By Fred Schwaller & Nature magazine Migraine symptoms that appear long before a headache can include fatigue, light sensitivity, neck pain and…
The Tianwan nuclear power plant on the coast of the Yellow Sea in China Xinhua/Alamy Chinese researchers have developed an extremely energy efficient and low-cost technology for extracting uranium from seawater, a potential boon to the country’s nuclear power ambitions. China currently leads the world in building new nuclear power plants, and shoring up its…
Ellen Stromdahl was at a garden party in coastal Virginia in June 2023 when her friend Albert Duncan stood up from where he was sitting and abruptly fainted. Duncan is an outdoorsman in his mid-80s — still active and healthy for his age. Stromdahl, an entomologist who works for the United States Army Public Health…
An artist’s impression of a Dyson sphere Aicrovision/Shutterstock If advanced alien civilisations are building vast satellite swarms designed to harvest a star’s energy, we should be able to see them – so why haven’t we? One answer might be that these structures, known as Dyson spheres, will likely destroy themselves before we can spot one,…
California Told Companies to Label Toxic Chemicals. Instead They’re Quietly Dropping Them Businesses are making moves to avoid consumer warning labels, and the effects reach far beyond California By Ripley Cleghorn edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Requiring warning labels on products with potentially toxic ingredients can obviously help keep them out of a careful consumer’s…
A wildfire rages in British Columbia, Canada, in June 2023 Imago/Alamy Stock Photo 2023 smashed the record for the hottest year, but it might have been even hotter. The entire northern hemisphere would have been nearly 1°C warmer on average during its summer without the cooling effect of smoke from massive wildfires in Canada, a…
For wounded chimpanzees, help sometimes comes in the form of first aid — care rendered not by humans but by other chimps. New research reveals the nature and prevalence of these rarely witnessed events. Thirty years of observations in Uganda’s Budongo Forest reveal that chimp-administered health care — both ape-to-ape care and self-care — happens…
