Science & Health: Space, Medicine, Climate Change And Humans

Noctilucent clouds hang over a lake at sunset. (Photo: Wikimedia)

Science & Health

2 days ago

Democrats’ Big Climate Plan Includes Studying the Risky Idea of Blocking Out the Sun

Brian Kahn

Science & Health

2 days ago

Doctors Find Brain Damage in Children With Mystery Syndrome Connected to Covid-19

Ed Cara

A pile of scrap metal at a breakage yard where old electrical and electronic items are sold in a district of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. (Photo: Issouf Sanogo/AFP, Getty Images)

Science & Health

2 days ago

Congrats, Humanity, We Trashed a Record Number of Electronics Last Year

Yessenia Funes

Wildfires seen via satellite burning north of the Arctic Circle in Siberia on June 30. (Image: Brian Kahn/Sentinel Hub)

Science & Health

2 days ago

Siberian Fires Have Released a Record Amount of Carbon This Year

Brian Kahn

New Zealand Health Minister Dr. David Clark and Prime Minister Jacinda Arden in a file photo from June 11, 2020 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo: Phil Walter, Getty Images)

Science & Health

2 days ago

New Zealand Health Official Resigns Over Two Covid-19 Cases Imported From Britain

Matt Novak

Science & Health

3 days ago

Researchers Have Uncovered an Ancient Aboriginal Archaeological Site Preserved on the Seabed

The Conversation

Science & Health

3 days ago

Studying Cancer In Tasmanian Devils Could Help Fight Human Diseases

The Conversation

Science & Health

3 days ago

We Know How to Save NSW’s Koalas From Extinction, But the Government Must Commit

Christine Hosking

Science & Health

3 days ago

City of Sydney Green Lights Use of 100% Renewable Energy

Sarah Basford

A lab technician preparing blood samples for covid-19 antibody testing. (Photo: Gil Cohen, Getty Images)

Science & Health

3 days ago

Rapid Antibody Testing Won’t Reliably Tell You If You’ve Had Coronavirus, Review Finds

Ed Cara

Wind turbines near Palm Springs, California. (Photo: David McNew, Getty Images)

Science & Health

3 days ago

‘We Have to Get This Right’: 60 House Democrats Call for Second Coronavirus Stimulus to be Green

Yessenia Funes

This is what illegal gold mining looked like in southeast Peru's Madre de Dios region in 2019. (Photo: Cris Bouroncle, Getty Images)

Science & Health

3 days ago

Gold Mining Is Hurting the Amazon’s Ability to Store Carbon

Yessenia Funes

Science & Health

3 days ago

Shell Is the Latest Oil Company to Do a Belly Flop

Brian Kahn

Health care workers in Brooklyn transporting a deceased patient who died of covid-19 to a refrigeration truck for temporary storage in early April. (Photo: Angela Weiss, Getty Images)

Science & Health

3 days ago

27,000 Coronavirus-Linked Deaths Have Gone Uncounted in U.S., Study Estimates

Ed Cara

Science & Health

4 days ago

A Hungry Black Hole Is Gobbling up the Equivalent of One Sun Every Day

Sarah Basford

Mobile

4 days ago

COVIDSafe May Never Use Apple and Google’s API

Tegan Jones

covidsafe coronavirus contact tracing app apple ios google android

Science & Health

4 days ago

By Persisting with COVIDSafe, Australia Risks Missing Out on Globally Trusted Contact Tracing

Ritesh Chugh

Science & Health

4 days ago

4 Unusual Things We’ve Learned About Coronavirus Since the Start of the Pandemic

Sanjaya Senanayake

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 26: In this photo illustration, the new COVIDSafe app as seen on an Iphone on the day the Australian Government released it to the public as a way of speeding up contacting people exposed to coronavirus (COVID-19) on April 26, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Tough restrictions on movement and gatherings implemented to reduce the spread of COVID-19 remain in place despite a steady decline in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Australia. All non-essential businesses remain closed or are restricted in operation, while public gatherings are limited to two people and social distancing measures require people to keep a safe 1.5m distance from one another. New South Wales and Victoria have enacted additional lockdown measures to allow police the power to fine people who breach the two-person outdoor gathering limit or leave their homes without a reasonable excuse. Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory have all closed their borders to non-essential travellers and international arrivals into Australia are being sent to mandatory quarantine in hotels for 14 days. (Photo by James D. Morgan/Getty Images)

Science & Health

4 days ago

Victoria Won’t Release COVIDSafe Access Figures

Sarah Basford

Science & Health

4 days ago

Will the COVID-19 Lockdown Slow the Effects of Climate Change?

Simon Kingham

A fly trapped in amber, showing its original colouring. (Image: Chenyang Cai et al., 2020)

Science & Health

4 days ago

Incredible Amber Fossils Reveal the True Colours of Ancient Insects

George Dvorsky

Photo: Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt, Getty Images

Science & Health

4 days ago

Cotton Is Best for Homemade Masks, Study Suggests

Ed Cara

RIP, Navajo Generating Station. (Photo: Susan Montoya Bryan, AP)

Science & Health

4 days ago

The Coronavirus Is Making a Just Transition More Urgent for Coal Country

Yessenia Funes

Piglets resting in their sty at the Lower Drayton Farm in the UK. (Photo: Christopher Furlong, Getty Images)

Science & Health

4 days ago

Not Now, Ominous New Swine Flu Strains

Ed Cara

Science & Health

4 days ago

Whale Sharks Have Eyeballs Covered in Tiny Teeth

George Dvorsky

Science & Health

4 days ago

Is Plant ‘Intelligence’ Just a Human Fantasy?

Sofia Quaglia

Photo: NASA Marshall Space Flight Centre/Flickr, Other

Science & Health

4 days ago

The Future Earth Challenges Us to Break Our Cycle of Doom

Brian Kahn

Rep. Kathy Castor, chair of the House's Select Committee on the Climate Crisis (Photo: Greg Nash-Pool, Getty Images)

Science & Health

4 days ago

U.S. House Democrats’ Climate Plan Is Finally Here, Doesn’t Totally Suck

Dharna Noor

Artist's impression of the disappearing star. (Image: ESO)

Science & Health

5 days ago

A Massive Star Has Disappeared Without a Trace

George Dvorsky

Science & Health

5 days ago

Coronavirus and University Reforms Puts Australia’s Research Gains from the Last 15 Years at Risk

Andrew Norton

Science & Health

5 days ago

Why the Ban on Nicotine Vape Fluid Will Do More Harm Than Good

Jody Morgan

Science & Health

5 days ago

A Certain Frequency of Red Light Boosted People’s Eyesight in New Study

Ed Cara

Science & Health

5 days ago

Report Finds FEMA Is Massively Undercounting Flood Risks In The U.S.

Shoshana Wodinsky

Image from benthic sled. Coral garden habitat with a high diversity of animals including sponges, anemones, and feather stars (Photo: ZSL/GINR)

Science & Health

5 days ago

Scientists Found a Vast, Deep Sea Coral Garden off Greenland’s Coast

Dharna Noor

Some of the graves uncovered at the site in southeastern Poland. (Image: Gminne Centrum Kultury w Jeżowem/Facebook)

Science & Health

5 days ago

16th-Century Child Skeletons With Coins in Their Mouths Found at Construction Site in Poland

George Dvorsky

Science & Health

5 days ago

The South Pole Is Warming Three Times Faster Than the Rest of Earth

Yessenia Funes

Science & Health

5 days ago

The Lie Behind Plastic Pollution Is That We’re Responsible

Michaela Barnett

Science & Health

6 days ago

How a ‘Gonzo’ Press Gang Forged the Ned Kelly Legend

Kerrie Davies and Willa McDonald

Science & Health

6 days ago

‘Digital Twins’ Can Help Monitor Infrastructure and Save Us Billions

Mojtaba Mahmoodian and Kevin Zhang and Sujeeva Setunge

Science & Health

6 days ago

4 Questions to Ask When You See a Map of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Amy Griffin

Science & Health

6 days ago

NASA: Help Us Make Pooping on the Moon Even Better

Alyse Stanley

Online

6 days ago

Medical Cannabis is Now Easier to Get in Queensland

Tegan Jones

Science & Health

6 days ago

How To Protect Yourself From Coronavirus If You’re Heading Back To The Office

Lisa Bricknell and Dale Trott

Entertainment

6 days ago

TNT and TBS Are Developing a Sequel to the 1985 Film D.A.R.Y.L. Starring Tony Hale

Julie Muncy

Science & Health

1 week ago

Record-Breaking Lightning Just Chilled in the Sky for 17 Seconds

Dharna Noor

Left: Facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic man from Sweden. Right: His skull, from which the reconstruction was based. (Image: Oscar Nilsson/S. Gummesson et al., 2018)

Science & Health

1 week ago

Facial Reconstruction of a Prehistoric Man Whose Head Was Mounted on a Stake

George Dvorsky

A health care worker in Iraq holding up a blood sample taken from a recovered covid-19 patient. (Photo: Asaad Niazi / AFP, Getty Images)

Science & Health

1 week ago

How Long Could Covid-19 Immunity Last? It’s Not Just About Antibodies

Ed Cara

Science & Health

1 week ago

If You Live In The U.S., Stop Going to Bars

Andrew Couts

Illustration: Benjamin Currie, G/O Media

Science & Health

1 week ago

How Phone Banking Teens Are Reshaping U.S. Congress

Yessenia Funes

Artistic conception of Betelgeuse and its hypothesised surface blemishes. (Image: MPIA graphics department)

Science & Health

1 week ago

Gigantic Splotches on the Star Betelgeuse Might Explain Its Freaky Dimming

George Dvorsky

Plastic nurdles. (Photo: Martin Bernetti, Getty)

Science & Health

1 week ago

Louisiana Activists Face Terrorism Charges, 15 Years in Prison for Harmless Plastic Stunt

Dharna Noor

Science & Health

1 week ago

18 Names for Amazon’s ‘Climate Pledge Arena’ That Would have Made More Sense

Brian Kahn

Science & Health

1 week ago

Australia Postpones Vaping Ban By 6 Months

Sarah Basford

Science & Health

1 week ago

A Chonky 150kg Wombat Roamed Australia’s Desert 25 Million Years Ago

Sarah Basford

Science & Health

1 week ago

Why Our Top Eyelashes Are Longer Than Our Bottom Eyelashes

Christian Moro and Zane Stromberga

Science & Health

1 week ago

The Evidence Still Shows Kids are Unlikely to Catch or Spread Coronavirus

Allen Cheng

Science & Health

1 week ago

CDC Expands List of Medical Conditions That Make People More Vulnerable to Covid-19

Ed Cara

Conceptual image of two black holes on the cusp of merging, situated within the gaseous disk of a nearby supermassive black hole (the bright spot in the background). (Image: R. Hurt/Caltech/Infrared Processing & Analysis Centre)

Science & Health

1 week ago

For the First Time Ever, Astronomers Spot Light From a Black Hole Smash-up

George Dvorsky

Ms. Frizzle welcomes you aboard. (Image: Scholastic, Other)

Entertainment

1 week ago

Elizabeth Banks Will Will Drive the Magic School Bus in a Live-Action Movie

Charles Pulliam-Moore

Soon enough, these big dirty boys will be a thing of the past. (Photo: Robyn Beck, Getty)

Cars

1 week ago

California Will Require Most Trucks Sold in the State to be Electric by 2035

Yessenia Funes

Siberian huskies (Photo: Thomas Frey, DPA/AFP via Getty Images)

Science & Health

1 week ago

Sled Dogs Have an Unbroken Genetic Ancestry Dating Back Nearly 10,000 Years

George Dvorsky

A health care worker in the DRC preparing a dose of the Ebola vaccine. (Illustration: Junior D. Kannah/AFP, Getty Images)

Science & Health

1 week ago

Second-Largest Ebola Outbreak in History Is Finally Over

Ed Cara

Science & Health

1 week ago

A Fossil Discovery Reveals the Earliest Relative of Modern Mammals

Arjan Mann and Bryan Gee and Jason D. Pardo

Science & Health

1 week ago

Earth’s Rock-Solid Connections Between Canada and Australia Contain Clues About the Origin of Life

Joshua Davies and Jesse Reimink

Science & Health

1 week ago

How Drought-Breaking Rains Transformed These Critically Endangered Woodlands

Jacqui Stol and Annie Kelly and Suzanne Prober

Satellite view of Okmok volcano in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands. The crater measures 6 miles (10 km) wide. (Image: US Geological Survey)

Science & Health

1 week ago

Volcanic Eruption in Alaska May Have Sparked Political Turmoil in Ancient Rome

George Dvorsky

Science & Health

1 week ago

Climate Lawsuits Are Coming for Koch Industries

Dharna Noor

Adélie penguins in Lützow-Holm Bay, Antarctica, enjoy easy access to food and increase body weight and breeding success in ice-free summer. (Photo: Yuuki Watanabe, National Institute of Polar Research, Japan)

Science & Health

1 week ago

At Least Some Penguins Benefited From Record Antarctic Sea Ice Loss

Yessenia Funes

Representative elect Jamaal Bowman, who won his election over Rep. Eliot Engel (Photo: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Science & Health

1 week ago

The Tuesday Primaries That You Didn’t Hear About Were a Big Deal for the Green New Deal

Dharna Noor

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

What Earth Would Be Like If We Hadn’t Pumped Greenhouse Gases into the Atmosphere

Laura Revell

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Australia Needs Better Defences Against State-Based Cyberattacks

James Martin and Belinda Barnet and Sarah Morrison

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

In Many Countries the Coronavirus Pandemic is Accelerating, Not Slowing

Adam Kamradt-Scott

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Vaping in Australia is About to Become a Whole Lot Tougher

Sarah Basford

Artistic depiction of a pulsar, which were thought to resemble an alien beacon when discovered in the 1960s. (Gif: NASA/Gizmodo)

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Scientists Made a List of Every Place Aliens Could Be Hiding

George Dvorsky

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

The Danger of Amazon’s $3 Billion Climate Fund

Brian Kahn

Artistic conception of a neutron star. (Image: NASA)

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

A Black Hole Collided With Something That Shouldn’t Exist

George Dvorsky

Climate change is set to displace more people — including children. (Photo: Adam Berry, Getty)

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

The UN Is Sounding the Alarm on ‘Climate Refugees’

Yessenia Funes

Georgia Power's coal-fired steam-turbine electric generating Bowen Steam Plant. (Photo: Karen Bleier, Getty)

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Stacey Abrams’ Group Has a Climate Plan for the South

Dharna Noor

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Australia has Failed Miserably on Energy Efficiency

Hugh Saddler

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

How Very Hungry Caterpillars Grow and Grow and Don’t Get Sick

Dennis Kolosov

Female pediatrician using smart phone while explaining through video conference in office

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Telehealth in Lockdown Meant 7 Million Fewer Chances To Transmit the Coronavirus

Centaine Snoswell and Anthony Smith and Liam Caffery

A photograph the DOJ says was found on an iCloud account tied to Ethan Melzer. (Screenshot: DOJ)

Gadgets

2 weeks ago

U.S. Army Soldier Charged With Plotting to Attack His Own Unit With Neo-Nazi Satanists

Tom McKay

A satellite photo of the Saharan dust plume, as imaged on June 18. (Image: NASA Worldview)

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Satellite Reveals Massive Saharan Dust Cloud Over the Atlantic Ocean

George Dvorsky

If plants can absorb nanoplastics through their roots, scientists worry what these plastic coverings may be doing to our food supply. (Photo: Yann Schreiber, Getty)

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Plants Can Absorb Tiny Plastic Pieces Through Their Roots, Study Finds

Yessenia Funes

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Does Your Blood Type Affect Your Risk of Covid-19?

Ed Cara

A hungry boy eating some fish. (Gif: Explore.org)

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

The World Still Sucks, but at Least Bear Cam Is Back

Yessenia Funes

Since 2011, the patient known as RFS has only been able to see wavy lines when looking at the digits 2 through 9. (Photo: Johns Hopkins University)

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

This Man Sees Numbers as Squiggles

Ed Cara

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

A Record Number of Bees Died Last Summer in the Northern Hemisphere

Dharna Noor

The circular structure (indicated by the black line) and 20 pits located along its boundary (in red). (Image: University of St. Andrews)

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Gigantic Circular Structure Found Near Stonehenge

George Dvorsky

An "Emergency" Sign in front of a hospital in the early evening

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

7 Lessons for Australia’s Health System from the Coronavirus Upheaval

Stephen Duckett and Anika Stobart

Cars

2 weeks ago

The South Australian Desert Is the Site of a New Flying Car Race

Sarah Basford

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Australia Is Under Sustained Cyber Attack, Warns The Government

Mahmoud Elkhodr

A view of an energy plant's dumpsite in Novosibirsk, a city in the Russian region of Siberia. (Photo: Rostislav Netisov, Getty Images)

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

It Was 38 Degrees in Siberia Today. Yes, That Siberia

Alyse Stanley

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Kentucky’s Primary Is a Test for the Green New Deal

Dharna Noor

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Girls Get Higher Scores in Arts than Boys, and This May be Why They’re Less Likely To Pick STEM Careers

Silvia Griselda and Rigissa Megalokonomou

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

The Toxic Cost Of Wood-Fired Heaters

Peter Irga and Brian Oliver and Fraser R Torpy

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

STEM Degrees Just Became Cheaper In Australia, Humanities Double In Price

Tegan Jones

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Dinosaur Footprints Show Predators as Big as T. Rex Stomped Across Australia 160 Million Years Ago

Anthony Romilio and Steven W. Salisbury

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Big Oil Is Scared Shitless

Brian Kahn

Polioviruses and a strawberry were mixed with a synthetic D. radiodurans manganese-decapeptide antioxidant before exposure to a sterilizing dose of gamma rays. The treated viruses and treated strawberry (right column) remained noticeably preserved compared to the untreated specimens (middle). (Image: Dr. Michael J. Daly (Uniformed Services University)

Science & Health

2 weeks ago

Bacteria Found in Nuclear Reactors Could Be the Secret to Faster, Cheaper Vaccines

Matthew Phelan

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