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California towns are banning new gas stations. Big Oil is paying attention.
This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.Some activists view the industry's response as a badge of success.When oil and gas companies attack a...
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The ghosts of the past: Pop music is haunted by our anxieties about the future
In 2011, pop music scholar Simon Reynolds was already observing pop culture’s fascination with its own past, noting that “we live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration.”For...
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Losing their tails provided our ape ancestors with an evolutionary advantage
Put the word “evolution” into Google images and the results are largely variations on one theme: Ralph Zallinger’s illustration, March of Progress. Running left to right, we see a chimp-like knuckle...
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NOAA warns world's coral on verge of 'worst bleaching event in history of the...
Driven by sustained climate-fueled oceanic heating, the planet is on the brink of another mass coral bleaching event that marine biologists warn could kill large swaths of tropical reefs including...
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OpenAI rejects Musk's accusations of 'betrayal'
OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, on Tuesday denied Elon Musk's accusations of "betrayal" of its original mission and said it would push to have them dismissed in court.The boss of Tesla, SpaceX and X...
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New NASA astronauts graduate, eying Moon and Mars
After two years of rigorous training, ten Americans officially became astronauts on Tuesday, and are now eligible for planned NASA missions to the International Space Station, the Moon, and -- if all...
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Sinking U.S. cities more exposed to rising seas: study
Sea level rise could hit major U.S. cities like New Orleans and San Francisco harder than expected by mid-century because coastal land is sinking, researchers said Wednesday, warning current flood...
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Hispanic health disparities in the U.S. trace back to the Spanish Inquisition
Many of the significant health disparities and inequities Hispanic communities in the United States face are tied to a long history of health injustice in the Hispanic world.The health landscape of...
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Robber flies track their beetle prey using tiny microbursts of movement
April in the Florida Panhandle. It was hot, humid, and a thunderstorm was lurking. But as a fresh graduate student, I was relieved for the escape from my first brutal Minnesota winter. I was...
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Eating processed food makes your face less attractive, study finds
How attractive your face looks appears to be linked to the kind of food you have just eaten, according to new research in France suggesting that dating trouble can be as much to do with bad manners...
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AI tools still permitting political disinformation creation, NGO warns
SAN FRANCISCO — Tests on generative AI tools found some continue to allow the creation of deceptive images related to political candidates and voting, an NGO warned in a report Wednesday, amid a busy...
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Stop treating menopause like a disease, group of health experts say
The menopause is not a disease, despite much discourse in Western countries leading women to think otherwise, a group of experts have said in a paper in The Lancet that argues that this period in life...
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February marks 9th straight month of record-smashing global heat: climate...
Last month was the warmest February on record globally, the ninth straight month of historic high temperatures across the planet as climate change steers the world into "uncharted territory", Europe's...
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SpaceX eyes March 14 for next Starship test launch
Elon Musk's SpaceX on Wednesday announced it was eyeing March 14 as the earliest date for the next test launch of its giant Starship rocket, with which it hopes to one day colonize Mars.Two previous...
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Is your child dyslexic? An expert spells out what to do
Your child may sometimes write the word "dog" with two o's in the middle instead of one, and other times "dgo" or perhaps "bog." Then know this: Spelling the same word wrong in different ways is a red...
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Highly awaited Alzheimer's drug hit by delays
Eli Lilly's highly anticipated Alzheimer's drug has been held back for further review by regulators, the US pharmaceutical giant said Friday, in a blow for patients with the devastating brain...
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2023-24 winter warmest on record for mainland US
The 2023–24 winter season was the warmest ever recorded for the mainland United States, official data showed Friday, in the latest sign the world is moving into unprecedented territory as a result of...
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Our brains take rhythmic snapshots of the world as we walk
For decades, psychology departments around the world have studied human behaviour in darkened laboratories that restrict natural movement.Our new study, published today in Nature Communications,...
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Europe must do more against 'catastrophic' climate risks, warns study
Europe could suffer "catastrophic" consequences from climate change if it fails to take urgent and decisive action to adapt to risks, a new EU analysis warned Monday.Areas in southern Europe are most...
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Proliferating 'news' sites spew AI-generated fake stories
A sensational story about the Israeli prime minister's "psychiatrist" exploded online, but it was AI-generated, originating on one of hundreds of websites researchers warn are churning out...
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