Bacteria could survive just under Mars’s surface for 280 million years
When bacteria are dried and frozen, as they most likely would be just under the surface of Mars, they can survive the intense radiation that hits the Red Planet for…
Why we urgently need answers about artificial sweeteners and health
Artificial sweeteners have been shown to help people maintain their weight and improve their health, but they have also been liked to conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. Nutrition…
Eastern Australia is battling fifth major wave of floods in 19 months
More extreme rain has flooded 43 towns in New South Wales, 24 in Victoria and three in Tasmania and the abnormally wet conditions are expected to last until 2023 Environment…
Heaviest Bony Fish Ever Measured Is a Wheel-Shaped Behemoth
A bulbous corpse found bobbing off a tiny island in the Azores is the heaviest bony fish ever measured. The record breaker is a bump-head sunfish (Mola alexandrini). Taller than…
Despite decades of hype, there is now real hope of progress in fusion
It may have a history of over-optimistic predictions, but research into generating power using a fusion reactor is finally making notable advances Technology | Leader 19 October 2022 By New…
FEMA Avoids Past Pitfalls by Rushing Storm Aid to Puerto Rico
It was a moderate hurricane whose damage seemed tame compared to the destruction five years earlier from Hurricane Maria. But in the weeks since Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, the…
The Beauty at the Heart of a “Spooky” Mystery
Studying quantum mechanics, which I’ve been doing for the last two-plus years, has served as an antidote to my tendency toward habituation, taking reality for granted. Wave functions, superposition and…
Rare Red Sea Brine Pool Holds Secrets of Past Natural Disasters
A brine pool is a rare and bizarre anomaly of nature: water so dense with salt that it won’t mix with seawater and forms a clearly defined “lake” on the…
Diseases Explode after Extreme Flooding and Other Climate Disasters
More than four months after devastating monsoon floods began in Pakistan, at least 1,500 people have died, and the waters that inundated nearly the entire country have yet to recede. This…
Pollution tweets from US embassies improved air quality in cities
Satellite data from 466 cities in low and middle-income countries shows that monitoring by US embassies led to better air quality compared with cities without public data Environment 24 October…