Love Dalén, Stockholm University and Anders Götherström, Stockholm University The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of…
Will Gorman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Bentham Paulos, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Galen Barbose, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Hurricane Ian’s catastrophic winds and flooding are likely to bring long-lasting power outages to large parts of Florida. The storm is…
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Patrick W. Keys, Colorado State University; Curtis Bell, US Naval War College;…
Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation This episode of…
Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol The Earth is approximately 1.1℃ warmer than it was at the start of the industrial revolution. That warming has not been uniform, with some regions warming at…
Rebecca J. Davis, Stephen F. Austin State University The U.S. coal industry chalked up a couple of rare wins this summer. First the Supreme Court issued a ruling limiting the government’s ability…
Stephen Burt, University of Reading Sleeping at the height of summer can sometimes feel impossible. And with gruelling heatwaves becoming more common, the nights can be sweltering, with no cooling breeze to…
Benjamin Kaveladze, University of California, Irvine; Jonathan Schooler, University of California Santa Barbara, and Oliver Sng, University of California, Irvine In this age of science, many people see supernatural forces as illusions…
Svetla Ben-Itzhak, Air University and R. Lincoln Hines, Air University NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently expressed concerns over China’s aims in space, and in particular, that China would, in some way, claim…
W. Larry Kenney, Penn State; Daniel Vecellio, Penn State; Rachel Cottle, Penn State, and S. Tony Wolf, Penn State Heat waves are becoming supercharged as the climate changes – lasting longer, becoming…
Oliver Metcalf, Manchester Metropolitan University and Liana Chesini Rossi, University of São Paulo State Tropical forest covers 12% of the planet’s land surface yet hosts around two thirds of all terrestrial species.…
Hans Bauer, University of Oxford Over the past 25 years, I have spent a lot of time counting lions as part of my job. Only last month, I spent three hours with…
Vanessa Pirotta, Macquarie University It’s that time of year again, when the humpback highway is about to hit peak blubber to blubber as humpback whales migrate up Australia’s east and west coasts…
Michael Heithaus, Florida International University When did the megalodon shark go extinct, and why? – Landon, age 10 Imagine traveling back in time and observing the oceans of 5 million years ago.…
