Global Coral Bleaching Has Now Hit 84% of Ocean’s Reefs in Biggest-Ever EventHarmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history.
April Heat Wave in N India Caused by Human-Driven Climate Change: StudyDehradun: The early arrival of the heatwave in April, scorching large parts of India and Pakistan with temperatures exceeding 40°C across North India .
The False Climate Solution That Just Won’t DieA star-studded film explains the hope and hype behind regenerative agriculture.
Earth Day 2025: 8 Ways to Live More SustainablyBeing an Earthling isn't easy these days. From flash floods and devastating earthquakes to extreme heat, no matter where you are on the planet, the effects of the climate crisis are vast and real.
Science Fiction, Project Blue Book, and the Beginnings of the UFO CrazeGabriel McKee explains how the combination of fantastical stories and obscure bureaucracy launched the “space age of the imagination.”
A Clean-Energy Boom Could Be Built on Oil and Gas TechnologyLittle of America’s energy comes from geothermal sources, but that could change quickly. The United States is in the midst of an energy revolution.
Looking under the hood at the brain’s language systemAs a young girl growing up in the former Soviet Union, Evelina Fedorenko PhD ’07 studied several languages, including English, as her mother hoped that it would give her the chance to eventually move abroad for better opportunities.
What to Know about the ‘Qudit’—and How It Could Change Quantum ComputingYou might be familiar with the qubit, the fundamental unit of quantum information.
You Need to Know What the Hash Sign Does in Excel FormulasSummary Excel spilled range operator (#) allows formulas to automatically adjust to changes in the spilled range size. You need to be using Excel for Microsoft 365 on Windows or Mac to make use of this handy tool.
Conscious ‘Alien Minds’ Could Be Living Among Us—And We Don’t Even Know It, Scientist SaysWhat is intelligence? We can all agree that humans are intelligent and many of us would likely extend that definition to the most mentally adept creatures of the animal kingdom—from dolphins to corvids.
Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us.The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language. Introduction Growing up, Tai-Danae Bradley had no love for math.
Sleep is essential — researchers are trying to work out whyYou have full access to this article via your institution. When neurobiologist Dragana Rogulja began studying sleep in her laboratory at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2013, she had no idea what her experiments would tell her about how sleep affects the body.
These fluffy white wolves explain everything wrong with bringing back extinct animalsThe fluffy white canines — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — unveiled this week by Colossal Biosciences are closer to something like designer dogs. More precisely, they are genetically modified, hybridized modern wolves, gestated in the womb of a domestic dog.
Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick driftThe Nintendo Switch may be remembered as much for repopularizing portable gaming as it will for a hardware issue that affected millions of gamers: joystick drift.
AI Is Actually a Form of ‘Alien Intelligence,’ Harvard Professor Claims—And It Will Surpass HumanityThe human brain is a marvel of neurons firing electrical impulses through complex networks of neural pathways. It can also be notoriously slow when it comes to figuring out new solutions for complicated tasks like designing new computer chips.