Air Quality This Week Gives U.S. a Glimpse of the World’s Air Pollution
The dangerous haze hovering over parts of the Northeast and Midwest on Wednesday morning was highly unusual for the United States. For many people around the world, it would be…
Russia and Saudi Arabia’s Oil Partnership Shows Strain
For most of the last six years, the leaders of Russia and Saudi Arabia worked with each other to control the global oil market during times of war, pandemic and…
Birds With a Taste for Flesh Threaten Whale Calves
Thousands of colossal southern right whales travel to the calm waters of Península Valdés off the coast of Argentina each year to breed and give birth. The cetaceans, which can…
Scientists Discover a Virgin Birth in a Crocodile
In January 2018, a female crocodile in a Costa Rican zoo laid a clutch of eggs. That was peculiar: She’d been living alone for 16 years. While crocodiles can lay…
Colorado River Carved Grand Canyon; Humans Dented It
You don’t need me to tell you that the Grand Canyon is magnificent. Otherworldly. Sublime. But, having rafted through 90 miles of the canyon with a group of scientists and…
8 new Apple innovations unveiled at WWDC23
The 2023 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off on June 5, and it’s safe to say this was one of its biggest events yet. The tech giant introduced updates to…
This orange lobster is a one in 30 million find, experts say
Researchers at the University of New England welcomed its latest addition – an orange lobster – to its collection of rare, multicolored crustaceans Monday, university officials announced. The unusually colored…
Birds Sing, but Are They Making Music? What Scientists Say.
When a bird sings, you may think you’re hearing music. But are the melodies it’s making really music? Or is what we’re hearing merely a string of lilting calls that appeals to…
Elon Musk's groundbreaking brain-computer interface gets green light for human trials
In a remarkable leap forward for neuroscience and technological innovation, Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has officially received approval from the FDA to begin the first human trials of…
Scientists claim evidence that our distant relatives buried their dead
Johannesburg — Scientists in South Africa have claimed a discovery they believe could force us to rethink some fundamentals of what it means to be human. Deep inside the Rising…