Research, space and the environment
Attacks against data centers in Europe and the Middle East are raising questions as to how we protect the infrastructure on which our digital lives depend
AI’s solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, and the details of how it happened, preview a chaotic future for math—and the world
A misidentified constellation could revise the timeline for Vincent van Gogh’s creation of his iconic painting
Plants can't easily pick up and move when environmental conditions get rough, so they've evolved strategies to weather harsh conditions in place. That could help some plants survive in the face of a warming climate.
Researchers fed fusion data to a new chip to see whether it could spot signs that superhot plasma is about to go haywire
Ancient Egypt’s first female ruler lived centuries before Nefertiti or Cleopatra
The melting of the poles is increasingly shifting Earth's shape at a faster rate, with the planet becoming more and more round.
During an intense drought from 2020 to 2022, the Upper Colorado River Basin lost far more groundwater than the Lower Basin did, despite having much higher natural recharge.
You Can See Everything, a documentary about the disgraced health tech company founder Elizabeth Holmes, has enjoyed a record-breaking opening in the US. It is a testament to how fascinated we remain by the convicted fraudster, but what is behind the enduring appeal? US technology editor Blake Montgomery tells Madeleine Finlay why Holmes continues to fascinate us, and reflects on whether the Theranos scandal has had a permanent impact on Silicon Valley Clip: You Can See Everything, A24 ‘You can’t make this stuff up’: why we remain fascinated by Elizabeth Holmes Continue reading...
Musk says there's "a lot to be gained" by combining the firms in what would be the biggest merger in history.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Stone, James O’Neill, has yet to have a confirmation hearing in the Senate, leaving the future leadership of the NSF unclear
The cyclone’s winds hit 185 miles per hour—the strongest windspeed of any storm this year
Lab studies have shown that psychedelics like psilocybin can lower inflammation and may be protective for a range of illnesses. Now, researchers are publishing some of the first data in humans that signals this holds potential for patients with neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease.
The cost of having a baby is difficult to predict. The amount families pay varies widely. Here are five tips to help you prepare for the often unexpected costs of pregnancy and giving birth.
In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5 , warned that AI had the potential to ‘change the stakes’ on existing and even new bioweapons. To find out why, and how, Ian Sample speaks to Dr Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He explains what has governments so worried and what measures could be put in place to reduce the risks Continue reading...
In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5 , warned that AI had the potential to ‘change the stakes’ on existing and even new bioweapons. To find out why, and how, Ian Sample speaks to Dr Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He explains what has governments so worried and what measures could be put in place to reduce the risks Could AI ‘change the stakes’ in the development of bioweapons? Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Continue reading...
A spacecraft is set to launch on an ambitious mission to bring 10g of Martian moon dust back to Earth.
A large underwater wave moved up the West Coast, raising sea levels. Scientists say it's driven by El Niño and it's going to happen again.
In the three weeks since a health worker’s death in Siberia, officials have stonewalled the WHO – setting a worrying precedent for future pandemics Is there a plague outbreak in Russia? If the answer were a clear yes, there shouldn’t be much reason to worry. With swift medical intervention, plague is treatable. But in the nearly three weeks since a worker at a Siberian plague research unit died of a mysterious respiratory illness, state officials have been consistently tight-lipped about what happened and whether there were any further cases. It is this uncertainty that has the World Health Organization (WHO) and international community worried: partly because there is a – very small – risk of an outbreak, and partly because it is yet another warning that the international coordination we rely on to prevent pandemics is fraying along with the rest of international politics, and could easily fail to protect us in the future. Continue reading...
How can we to compete against a natural force with the power of 25 atomic bombs?
