Extreme heat exposure on the rise for millions of kids: UN
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Nearly half a billion children are facing twice as many days of extreme heat each year—or more—than their grandparents did, the UN said Tuesday, warning of…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Nearly half a billion children are facing twice as many days of extreme heat each year—or more—than their grandparents did, the UN said Tuesday, warning of…
Freshwater crocodile taking doctored cane toad bait. Credit: Georgia Ward-Fear Scientists from Macquarie University working with Bunuba Indigenous rangers and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) in Western…
Sum-frequency spectro-microscopy of phonon polaritons in SiC micropillar arrays. Credit: Advanced Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202312507 Scientists from the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max…
Charge radii differences in mirror nuclei, which have opposite numbers of protons and neutrons, can help constrain parameters for the equation of state nuclear matter, which describes the properties of…
Technicians inspect NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Wide Field Instrument upon delivery to the big clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn The primary instrument…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Former President Donald Trump says that his campaign was hacked by the Iranian government—a claim that followed news on Friday that Microsoft had evidence suggesting an…
Once mixed with water and allowed to reseparate, the solvent floats back to the surface, carrying the nanoplastics within its molecular structure. Credit: Sam O’Keefe/University of Missouri University of Missouri…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain High temperatures which scientists say are being worsened by human-driven carbon emissions caused nearly 50,000 deaths in Europe last year, a study published Monday found. The…
The Big Yellow Sulfur Pile. Credit: Woongbi Cho A striking landmark in Vancouver, Canada, “The Big Yellow Sulfur Pile” is a testament to the massive amounts of elemental sulfur produced…
In this image of the Serpens Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a grouping of aligned protostellar outflows within one small region (the top left corner). Serpens…