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August 16, 2024 3 min read Climate Change Made 2023’s Wildfire Season So Much Worse Global warming made hot, dry weather that fuels wildfires more likely in places such as Canada, Greece and the Amazon rainforest last year, new research says By Chelsea Harvey & E&E News People look at the wildfire raging in a […]

August 15, 2024 2 min read Tardigrade Fossils Reveal When ‘Water Bears’ Became Indestructible 252 million years ago, tardigrades may have escaped extinction using this one weird trick By Mindy Weisberger An artistic reconstruction of two tardigrade fossil specimens that were preserved in amber and analyzed in a recent study. “Cretaceous Amber Inclusions Illuminate the

Sometimes your gut feelings lead you astray—particularly in mathematics, in which one constantly comes across results that seem impossible. For example, infinity does not always equal infinity, and tortoises may outpace human athletes—at least from a certain mathematical point of view. There are also many scenarios that appear contradictory at first glance (or second or

August 15, 2024 5 min read Eating Disorders Can Strike Anyone Misconceptions that eating disorders mostly afflict white, affluent, young females have led to disparities in the treatment of these deadly diseases By Ashley Andreou “I still don’t trust my parents’ ability to feed me,” confessed Sofia after I asked what she was most anxious

August 14, 2024 3 min read Stunning Space Station Video Shows Glimmering Northern Lights from Above Coronal mass ejections from the sun sparked dazzling auroras that were visible from the ground and from space By Saima S. Iqbal NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick took this photo of the aurora display caused by a coronal mass ejection

August 14, 2024 3 min read Cleaned Up Shipping Emissions Have Revealed Additional Global Warming New shipping regulations set limits on sulfur in maritime fuel, reducing harmful pollution but inadvertently ceasing a cooling effect on Earth’s climate By Chelsea Harvey & E&E News Cargo ships at the entrance of the Panama Canal on September 24,

August 14, 2024 2 min read SpaceX Set to Launch First-Ever Crew over Earth’s Poles Launching in late 2024, the Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight to explore the planet’s polar regions By Mike Wall & SPACE.com A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft rests atop one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets inside a

August 14, 2024 3 min read Stonehenge’s Strangest Rock Came from 500 Miles Away A new analysis of Stonehenge’s “Altar Stone” suggests Neolithic people walked or sailed some 500 miles to transport the six-ton boulder By Meghan Bartels Shanna Baker/Getty Images One of the massive rocks at the mysterious Stonehenge structure in southern England may

August 14, 2024 3 min read Mars Hides Colossal Ocean Deep Below Its Surface An underground Martian ocean could hold enough liquid to cover the Red Planet with a mile of water By Ben Turner & LiveScience Using data collected by NASA’s InSight Lander, researchers have detected what might be a massive reservoir deep beneath

August 13, 2024 3 min read Will This Storm Become a Hurricane? Here’s How Meteorologists Tell New techniques are helping forecasters spot storms that could develop into dangerous hurricanes earlier than ever By Xingchao Chen & The Conversation US On August 12, 2024, forecasters were watching for signs that Potential Tropical Cyclone Five would develop