âSpace hurricanesâ churn at both of Earthâs magnetic poles
When the lines reconnect, they roil ionized gas in the ionosphere, driving flows of electric current upward, the team suggests.
Floating whale carcasses are a problem â can we predict their drift?
After the satellite data was collected, the team used a search-and-rescue computer model to see what paths it simulated for various objects that resembled the profile of a dead whale, including a skiff, a life raft and a small vessel called a panga, based on the same location and weather conditions.
How doctors can help demystify birth control amid online confusion
Centering the patient during contraceptive counseling means validating and exploring their concerns and talking about âwhat you can do to support them in a treatment plan that feels good to them,â says Andrea Hoopes, an adolescent medicine physician-researcher at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle.
Rainforest of super trees descended from lost supercontinent Gondwana being created in Australia
Pfautsch, who is a professor of urban planning and management at Western Sydney University, also expressed concern about the project's reliance on public donations to keep afloat: "Continued state and federal government funding is critical to secure the growth of the trees," he said.
Artificial flavours released by cooking aim to improve lab-grown meat
Johannes le Coutre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, says he is sceptical of the work for numerous reasons, including that the flavour tests predominantly used an electronic nose to assess the chemicals being released, rather than human judgement of whether they smelled appetising.
Making roofs white or reflective is the best way to keep a city cool
A 2023 report by the Greater London Authority suggested that cool roofs may become an increasing policy focus for city officials as summer temperatures rise under climate change.
More than 100 shark species may face major population declines by 2100
Noémie Coulon at the French National Museum of Natural History subjected catshark eggs to various ocean conditions, including monthly temperature changes, in tanks in the lab.
This 3-D printer can fit in the palm of your hand
A new 3-D printer thatâs mere millimeters in size could offer a new way to produce customizable objects, scientists report June 6 in Light: Science & Applications.
Britain saw centuries of economic growth under Roman rule
The researchers think that this growth was driven by factors such as the roads and ports built by the Romans, the laws they introduced making trading safer, and their technologies, such as more advanced grain mills and better breeds of animals for ploughing.
Giant salamander-like predator roamed Namibia 280 million years ago
Claudia Marsicano at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and her colleagues have now described these fossils in detail, naming the species Gaiasia jennyae after the Gai-As formation in Namibia and the palaeontologist Jennifer Clack.
Scientists Say: Excitation
nitrogen: A colorless, odorless and nonreactive gaseous element that forms about 78 percent of Earth's atmosphere.
Rare, mystery blasts from sun can devastate the ozone layer and spike radiation levels on Earth
His research is characterised by multi-disciplinary approaches combining information from areas such as climate change, geology, archaeology, microbiology, and anthropology to generate novel methods to study evolution, population genetics, medical science and conservation.
The best new science fiction books of July 2024
This short story collection will give us a âkaleidoscopic view of the climate crisisâ, promises its publisher, moving from a boy trying to bring the natural world back to his urban life to a ballet dancer trying to inhabit the consciousness of a rat (at this stage, it isnât clear why â but Iâm keen to find out).
Alien ‘warp drives’ may leave telltale signals in the fabric of space-time, new paper claims
"Any matter moving around in an irregular way can potentially create gravitational waves," study co-author Katy Clough, a theoretical physicist at Queen Mary University of London, told Live Science in an email.
âDo I Know You?â explores face blindness and the science of the mind
She volunteers for research studies, undergoes brain scans, takes vision tests, plays virtual reality games and scores a beeper that she wears for a few hours each week, intermittently prompting her to record every bit of her conscious experience.
The hacker turned politician using digital tech to reimagine democracy
After the first covid-19 cases were declared in mainland China in late 2019, she became a central player in the Taiwanese governmentâs response as a cabinet member for digital affairs.
Some people have never gotten COVID-19. An obscure gene may be why
The results stem from a challenge trial: At the height of the pandemic in 2021, scientists in the United Kingdom exposed 36 young, healthy unvaccinated volunteers whoâd never gotten COVID-19 to the virus through their noses (SN: 2/18/21).