CLIMATEWIRE | Time magazine selected Elon Musk as its “person of the year” in 2021 after the billionaire entrepreneur upended the car market, reinvigorated the space industry and funded a $100 million competition for climate technologies that would remove carbon dioxide from the air and sea. But Musk won’t attend Time’s event in New York…
The logo of the social media platform Reddit Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Image Reddit users who were unwittingly subjected to an AI-powered experiment have hit back at scientists for conducting research on them without permission – and have sparked a wider debate about such experiments. The social media site Reddit is split into “subreddits” dedicated…
Athletic, crocodile-like reptiles with bladed teeth made their last stand in the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago. New fossils unearthed in the Dominican Republic suggest the reptile group went extinct millions of years later than previously thought, researchers report April 30 in Proceedings B of the Royal Society. The findings also help…
Lion Bite to the Butt May Be First Proof of Human-Animal Gladiatorial Combat The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England By Gayoung Lee edited by Allison Parshall 1st century C.E. Roman relief portraying gladiators and lions fighting. DEA/A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images Roman…
Climate change plays a role in disasters like Colorado’s Marshall fire, which destroyed 1000 homes in December 2021 Jim West/Alamy The Trump administration has dismissed all of the nearly 400 researchers working on the next US National Climate Assessment, a move likely to delay – if not prevent – the completion of this key report…
A new way of generating clean power could run your lights with rain. Hydropower typically relies on the movement of water to create electricity through mechanical energy, such as spinning turbines in a dam. But a new method, described April 16 in ACS Central Science, skips the mechanics and harnesses tiny bursts of energy sparked…
Trump Dismisses Scientists Writing Key Climate Report President Trump has dismissed hundreds of scientists working on the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment, raising concerns about whether the void will be filled with pseudoscience By Scott Waldman & E&E News Firefighters watch as flames and smoke move through a valley in the Forest Ranch area of…
In the double-slit experiment, light waves interfere with each other – or do they? RUSSELL KIGHTLEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Light is both a wave and a particle – or so we have thought for about a hundred years. Since the advent of quantum physics, light has been understood to exhibit wave-particle duality. One part of this…
Floating displays you can reach into and manipulate, like the ones Tony Stark uses to design his super suits in the Iron Man movies, are one step closer to reality. A new device renders 3-D graphics that users can grab, drag and rotate. Such interactive visuals — which can be seen without a VR headset…
Human papillomavirus (HPV) causes nearly 38,000 cancers a year, including most cervical and throat cancers. Now recent research suggests HPV infection also increases the risk of heart disease. An analysis of seven studies with a total of nearly 250,000 participants found that those who tested positive for HPV were 33 percent more likely than those…
