Trump adviser: Giving rats cocaine 'is what is contributing so much' to...
Stephen Moore, an economic adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, argued that a $419,470 cocaine study on rats was what was contributing "so much" to the U.S. national debt.In a Tuesday interview on...
View ArticleElon Musk sets up MAGA world civil war with big Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
Donald Trump's inner circle is set up for an internal fight over how best to tackle America's obesity epidemic, as previous reports have made clear — and tech billionaire Elon Musk just lobbed a new...
View Article'Dangerous new era': climate change spurs disaster in 2024
From tiny and impoverished Mayotte to oil-rich behemoth Saudi Arabia, prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate...
View ArticleWhat are macros? An exercise and nutrition scientist explains
“I’m tracking my macros.”“I’ll pass on that, it doesn’t fit in my macros.”“I’m on the Macro Diet.”Macros seem to come up often in the corners of the internet and social media devoted to people trying...
View Article'We are screwed': Virologists warn about disease they say could become the...
A new report from PBS highlights the potential danger of bird flu turning into a full-blown pandemic in the United States.In particular, PBS spoke with several experts who said the United States has...
View ArticleFrom dead galaxies to mysterious red dots, here’s what the James Webb...
On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space.It took 30 years to...
View ArticlePolluting shipwrecks are the ticking time-bomb at the bottom of our oceans
At the bottom of the oceans and seas lie more than 8,500 shipwrecks from two world wars. These wrecks have been estimated to contain as much as 6 billion gallons of oil, as well as munitions, toxic...
View ArticleSunspots and solar flares, created by the sun’s magnetism, can affect the...
Since ancient times, the sun has been known as a giver of light and heat, a source of life. Plants are coaxed from the Earth by its rays, bringing spring, followed by bountiful harvests. The Earth...
View ArticleTaiwan says 2024 was hottest year on record
Taiwan said Tuesday that this year was the hottest since records began 127 years ago, echoing unprecedented temperature highs felt around the world.Climate change sparked a trail of extreme weather...
View ArticleChina says shared Covid information 'without holding anything back'
Beijing insisted on Tuesday that it had shared information on Covid-19 "without holding anything back", after the World Health Organization implored China to offer more data and access to understand...
View ArticleHumans will soon be able to mine on the Moon. But should we? 4 questions to...
By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the Moon.But as space becomes accessible to more nations and corporations, we need to stop and ask ourselves...
View ArticleJunk food companies 'freaking out' as people on weight-loss meds eat better:...
Junk food companies are starting to get nervous over how many Americans use GLP-1 medications to lose weight. Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell walked through shocking details of the...
View Article2024 was China's hottest year on record: weather agency
by Sam Davies, with Jing Xuan Teng in ShanghaiLast year was China's hottest on record and the past four years were its warmest ever, its weather agency said this week.China is the leading emitter, in...
View ArticleIsidore of Seville: the patron saint of the internet who shaped knowledge for...
In a world where information flows freely, it’s easy to forget that, for centuries, knowledge was much harder to come by. Imagine living in a time when the internet didn’t exist, books were scarce,...
View ArticleSeven advances in technology that we’re likely to see in 2025
In the grand scheme of things, 45 years is not a long time. Back in 1980, it would take me three weeks to run a computer program, written in the programming language Cobol, that worked using punched...
View ArticleAlcohol should have cancer warning label: U.S. surgeon general
The United States' top government doctor on Friday called for health warnings on alcoholic drinks to highlight that they cause cancer and urged a reassessment of daily consumption limits due to the...
View ArticleTime expansion experiences: why time slows down in altered states of...
We all know that time seems to pass at different speeds in different situations. For example, time appears to go slowly when we travel to unfamiliar places. A week in a foreign country seems much...
View ArticleNASA’s micro-mission Lunar Trailblazer will make macro-measurements of the...
NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on the Moon in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission.Artemis II will utilize...
View ArticleTotal eclipse of the Moon, Saturn’s rings ‘disappear’, meteors: Guide to...
In addition to the annual parade of star pictures or constellations passing above our heads each night, there are always exciting events to look out for in the sky. The year 2025 is no exception and...
View ArticleDivisive study finds link between fluoride and childhood IQ loss
A controversial new study out Monday in a U.S. medical journal could reignite debate over fluoride's safety in water, linking higher exposure levels to lower IQ in children.Published in the...
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