New York City’s skyline may start to look very different if the metropolis keeps sinking Gary Hershorn/Getty Images More than two dozen of the biggest cities in the US are sinking, which could affect thousands of buildings and millions of people. The problem has been reported before, particularly in coastal areas. But by using satellite…
Many teens who vape want to quit. A recent clinical trial suggests that a drug used to stop smoking can help. In the last four weeks of a 12-week trial, 51 percent of the 88 teens and young adults taking the drug varenicline, which was paired with counseling and text messaging support, abstained from vaping…
How NASA Can Make the Moon Great Again An unhinged 2026 U.S. budget proposal would hollow NASA to a husk bent to Elon Musk’s whims. Only one mission can save the space agency By Dan Vergano Good news, folks. We’re going to beat China to the moon. What’s that, you say? We did that already,…
Shutterstock/Leka Sergeeva Whether it’s Pandora’s box, Eve’s apple or the cat’s curiosity, there is no shortage of cautionary tales about the dangers of knowledge – but are there really ideas so toxic that they should be suppressed? Well, it depends on whom you ask. When faced with Galileo Galilei’s heretical concept of Earth not being…
President Donald Trump recently dubbed himself the “fertilization president” after signing an executive order that called for policy recommendations to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF). U.S. reproductive health debates have long focused on abortion, but Mary Ziegler, a leading historian of U.S. reproductive law, says policy moves like the IVF order are reviving—and…
Crewed deep-sea submersibles have been around for decades NOAA The first comprehensive analysis of deep-sea dives has revealed that humans have only directly observed a tiny fraction – less than 0.001 per cent – of the global deep seafloor, leaving the vast majority of our planet unexplored. Oceans make up 71 per cent of Earth’s…
Ancient oxygen-making microbes may have oxygenated large swaths of Earth’s seafloor hundreds of millions of years before the element filled the atmosphere. Geochemical analysis of sediments deposited roughly 2.6 billion years ago reveals that pulses of oxygen may have swept through large regions of the ocean, researchers report April 26 in Nature Geoscience. The findings…
This article includes a reference to violent sexual assault. Reports of a sophisticated new artificial intelligence platform started surfacing on cybersecurity blogs in April, describing a bespoke system whispered about on dark web hacker forums and created for the sole purpose of crime. But despite its shadowy provenance and evil-sounding name, Xanthorox isn’t so mysterious….
Why are dementia cases soaring in China? hanohikirf/Alamy Dementia rates are increasing more rapidly in China than almost anywhere else in the world, with cases more than quadrupling in the country over the past few decades. Daoying Geng at Fudan University in China and her colleagues analysed dementia rates in 204 countries and regions around…
Post-workout cold plunges may be having a moment, but a new study dunks on the practice. After a tough workout, muscle recovery was no better in women who immersed themselves in chilly water than in women who didn’t. No recovery benefits came from a hot soak, either. The decidedly tepid results appear May 7 in…
