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Beryl foreshadows future hurricanes, says UN weather agency
The World Meteorological Organization, which is tracking Hurricane Beryl's deadly course through the Caribbean, told AFP that more storms with its hallmarks could be expected in the future.The WMO,...
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Why is Amazon building a $2 billion cloud for Australia’s military intelligence
Amazon has secured a A$2 billion contract with the Australian Signals Directorate – the agency responsible for foreign signals intelligence and information security. A local subsidiary of Amazon Web...
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Even short trips to space can change an astronaut’s biology
Only about 600 people have ever traveled to space. The vast majority of astronauts over the past six decades have been middle-aged men on short-duration missions of fewer than 20 days.Today, with...
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Is AI a major drain on the world's energy supply?
When Google announced this week that its climate emissions had risen by 48 percent since 2019, it pointed the finger at artificial intelligence.US tech firms are building vast networks of data centres...
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‘Jaws’ portrayed sharks as monsters, but it also inspired a generation of...
Human fear of sharks has deep roots. Written works and art from the ancient world contain references to sharks preying on sailors as early as the eighth century B.C.E. Relayed back to land, stories...
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Menopause treatments can help with hot flashes and other symptoms
Menopause used to be a taboo topic in many quarters. Now, it’s frequently in the news.In March 2024, the White House announced an initiative to “Galvanize New Research on Women’s Midlife Health.” In...
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‘Ready to come out?’ Scientists reemerge after year ‘on Mars’
The NASA astronaut knocks loudly three times on a what appears to be a nondescript door, and calls cheerfully: “You ready to come out?”The reply is inaudible, but beneath his mask he appears to be...
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Sticky future: climate change hits Nepal's honey hunters
Hanging from a rope-and-bamboo ladder off a Himalayan mountain cliff, skilled Nepali climbers gather highly prized hallucinogenic honey -- an ancient tradition stung by environmental degradation and...
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June hottest on record, beating 2023 high: EU climate monitor
Last month was the hottest June on record across the globe, the EU's climate monitor said Monday, capping half a year of wild and destructive weather from floods to heatwaves.Every month since June...
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Old pipes cause Texas cities to lose tens of billions of gallons of water...
This article was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide...
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Animal crossing: Highway bridge aims to save California's cougars
Hollywood stars aren't the only celebrities who live in the hills around Los Angeles -- Southern California's mountain lions also make their homes there and are sometimes almost as famous.The animal,...
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13 months of record-smashing heat called 'another red alert' for humanity
Scientists on Monday underscored the urgent need to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy following the publication of data from the European Union's climate change monitor...
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Wildfire smoke linked to thousands of premature deaths every year in...
When wildfires rage, the immediate threat is obvious – but smoke from the fires actually kills far more people than the flames. As fires become more frequent, that smoke is leading to a public health...
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To guard against cyberattacks in space, researchers ask ‘what if?’
If space systems such as GPS were hacked and knocked offline, much of the world would instantly be returned to the communications and navigation technologies of the 1950s. Yet space cybersecurity is...
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Unregulated online political ads pose a threat to democracy
Think back to the last time you scrolled through your social media feed and encountered a political ad that perfectly aligned with your views – or perhaps one that outraged you. Could you tell if it...
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Rare Florida cactus becomes first U.S. species lost to sea rise
A rare species of tree cactus has gone extinct in Florida, in what is believed to be the first species lost to sea level rise in the United States, researchers said Tuesday.The Key Largo tree cactus...
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Nanoscopic motor proteins in the brain build the physical structures of memory
The puzzle of memory has intrigued philosophers and intellects for a very long time. Plato and Aristotle believed that memory was found only in the realm of the soul and the mind, but there was...
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Deadly border technologies are increasingly employed to violently deter...
In late May 2024, I travelled to the United States-Mexico border to study the smart-wall addition to the border structure. I was accompanied by Arizona-based journalist and friend, Todd Miller, and we...
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Warming Baltic Sea: a red flag for global oceans
Climate change combined with pollution from farming and forestry could flip northern Europe's Baltic Sea from being a sponge for CO2 to a source of the planet-warming gas, scientists studying told...
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Astronauts stuck on ISS 'confident' Starliner will bring them home
A pair of US astronauts stuck waiting to leave the International Space Station said Wednesday they were confident that the problem-plagued Boeing Starliner they rode up on would soon bring them home,...
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