Weather
La Niña is officially here to shape U.S. winter weather, along with global climate
La Niña is back, ya'll. And it may have major implications for your winter weather, depending on where you live. La N…
Tech
Google: Project Loon has provided internet access to 100,000 people in Puerto Rico
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wishful thinking
Dino-Killing Asteroid Struck an Unfortunate Spot, Claim Scientists
Hindsight is 20/20. Maybe you’d be more productive if you didn’t stay up until 3 am binge watching Stranger Things. Maybe …
zombies among us
The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We Realized
Carpenter ants of the Brazilian rain forest have it rough. When one of these insects gets infected by a certain fungus, it…
usda
The USDA Is Scrapping Terrible, Nonsense GMO Rules
In January, as the Obama era was winding down, both the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture qui…
Science
The first Arctic blast of the year is here, and it's about to get ass-cold, folks
Among New Yorkers, there's a dark hypothesis about fall weather in the city, which is that there's only one "…
Science
New Brain Technologies Could Lead to Terrifying Invasions of Privacy, Warn Scientists
Imagine for a minute that you survive a terrible accident, and lose function of your right arm. You receive a brain implan…
Science
Crested Pigeons Sound the Alarm With Whistling Wings
A small contingent of chunky, dove-like birds cautiously patter around a clearing in a park in suburban Sydney. Suddenly, …
Sun
Northern Lights shimmer over Michigan in hypnotic time-lapse
It's that time of year again: the leaves are falling, your breath frosts on the air, and, in some parts of the country…
Science
Extinct Giant Otter Ruled With Powerful Jaws
You might have heard about that insane extinct otter that lived around 6 million years ago and weighed around 11o pounds—…
Zika Virus
Armed mosquitoes to battle invasive, disease-carrying mosquitoes in the U.S.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleared the mosquito control startup MosquitoMate this week to unleash its lab-…
sheep
Sheep trained to recognize Jake Gyllenhaal, for science
Sheep can be trained to recognize celebrities like Barack Obama and Jake Gyllenhaal, new research shows. A University of …
Stat News
Incredible treatment heals a young boy’s lethal skin disease with stem cells
The complications of the little boy’s genetic skin disease grew as he did. Tiny blisters had covered his back as a newborn…
Science
Let's All Calm Down and Make Sense of That Antarctic Mantle Plume
Three decades ago, scientists began to study the possibility that there was a plume of hot rock coming up from the mantle,…
Science
The astounding climate denial of a top Trump environmental pick was just on display before senators
So far, President Donald Trump has shown a propensity to surround himself with climate deniers. There's Scott Pruitt a…
spacex
SpaceX Launches Investigation After Rocket-Engine Explodes During Tests
On Sunday, a rocket-engine exploded during ignition tests at the SpaceX facility in Texas. The incident marks a setback fo…
Sea Ice
Crucial Arctic monitoring satellites are blinking out just when we need them most
For 18 years, a fully-built, ready-to-launch weather satellite sat inside a Lockheed Martin facility near Moffett Field in…
wake up sheeple
Apparently These Sheep Can Recognize Emma Watson and Barack Obama
Sheep seemed to recognize the faces of Barack Obama, Emma Watson, and even Jake Gyllenhaal in a new study. And you thought…
weapons
US Air Force Wants to Put Lasers on Fighter Jets By 2021
The US Air Force’s scientific research wing is giving Lockheed Martin $26.3 million “for the design, development, and prod…
supernovae
Remarkable New Supernova Discovery Is Unlike Anything Seen Before
Astronomers have spotted something truly baffling: a new light 500 million light years away that looked exactly like a sup…
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