A UCLA-led team has accomplished an unprecedented feat: capturing the sharpest image ever recorded of the disk of a distant star, without using a set of telescopes. The advance was possible thanks to a novel device called photonic flashlightreshaping the limits of telescopic imaging. The experiment aimed Beta canis minorisa star located 162 light years…
Lunar eclipse on March 14, 2025. Credit: NASA/Jordan Cochran How have you been sleeping lately? I not so well. I do well during the day, mainly. But then I wake up at 3 or 4 worried about what’s going on in the world. Here are some strategies I use to distract myself and get back…
Abstract The Lower Mekong Basin is recognized as a region of notable biodiversity. However, it is currently experiencing serious degradation due to rapid economic development and the intensifying effects of climate change. Many species, including earthworms, are increasingly threatened. Besides, Aminthas mekongianus (Cognetti, 1922) exhibits considerable intraspecific morphological variability, which makes its identification difficult. Therefore,…
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AI-powered sentiment analysis to provide deeper insights into how research is received Tuesday September 2, 2025 Digital Science is pleased to announce that altmetricwhich captures the attention of online research, has introduced a new AI-powered sentiment analysis feature, to give research teams deeper insight into the public response and impact of their work on select…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a former lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council and was once a pillar of the Democratic Party, which is why President Obama floated his name to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. He now controls the agency that controls the EPA. This is a big…
The idea behind this worksheet is for children to take it outside, listen to the sounds around them, and mark the things they can hear. There are three sheets to choose from: things I can hear on the beach, in the forest, and a general one. How do we hear noise? The simple explanation Sounds…
Fountain: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems In some parts of the Earth’s interior, seismic waves travel at different speeds depending on the direction in which they move through the rock layers in the interior of the earth. This property is known as seismic anisotropy and can provide important information about how silicate rock in the mantle deforms,…
Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organization leader Fikile Ntshangase was murdered in 2020. Image courtesy of Lunga Bhengu/groundWork. Environmental justice activists have spoken out against coal and iron ore mining in South Africa, telling a recent human rights hearing that the industry violently undermines the country’s promised energy transition. They also noted the continued threats, displacements,…
Ted Nordhaus deserves credit for doing what few in the climate establishment do: admitting he was wrong. in his essay “I thought climate change would end the world. I made a mistake” (The Free Press, October 19, 2025), Nordhaus admits that his worldview “was based on apocalyptic models born of erroneous assumptions.” That phrase alone…