Is Slow Living the Solution As Delhi Battles Air Crisis?Rarekar Kamlakant, a 62-year-old who works at a luxurious property of Coco Shambala in his village in Maharashtra, doesn’t look a day over forty. Not just that, he can effortlessly trek the hills around his village and walk miles without breaking a sweat.
Climate Change Made All of This Year’s Atlantic Hurricanes So Much WorseA new analysis finds that the storms’ wind speeds increased by up to 28 miles per hour, boosting their destructive power.
‘The Sixth Great Extinction Is Happening’, Conservation Expert WarnsConservationist Jane Goodall on the urgent need to turn the tide on climate change and nature loss.
The Amateur’s Guide to AstrophotographyWant to take pro-level Northern Lights and Milky Way photos on vacation? Here’s how.
Could Humans Hibernate?Hibernation allows many animals to time-travel from difficult times to plenty. Could humans learn how to do it too?
Elon Musk Is Betting Mars on TrumpMusk wants to give Trump the presidency. Trump wants to give Musk the universe. If NASA’s current schedule sticks, the next American president will oversee the first moon landing since the Apollo era and preside over the agency’s plans for sending astronauts deeper into the solar system.
Large language models not fit for real-world use, scientists warn — even slight changes cause their world models to collapseGenerative artificial intelligence (AI) systems may be able to produce some eye-opening results but new research shows they don’t have a coherent understanding of the world and real rules.
Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf StellaratorFor a machine that’s designed to replicate a star, the world’s newest stellarator is a surprisingly humble-looking apparatus. The kitchen-table-size contraption sits atop stacks of bricks in a cinder-block room at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in Princeton, N.J.
The Quest to Build a Star on EarthThe quest for fusion energy — the clean, potentially limitless source that could end mankind’s power woes — began as an answer to an old question, one we’ve been asking since we first raised our heads toward the sky. It was the mid-19th century.
To Find Alien Intelligence, Start With the MountainsThe key to complex life might be hiding miles below our feet. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.
Scientists Think They Found a Key to “Nature’s Modus Operandi”In a real headscratcher, scientists have applied a theory of word frequency to three pools of physics equations and drawn some conclusions.
These 1.77-Million-Year-Old Teeth Could Help Demystify Human ChildhoodsThe fossil ‘jackpot’ is from the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia.
Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now.It seems like Roald Dahl may have been onto something after all: if you hurt a plant, it screams. Well, sort of. Not in the same way you or I might scream.
New Cold-Climate Heat Pumps Are About to Hit the MarketThe first heat pumps to go through the Department of Energy's Cold Climate Heat Pump Challenge might be in American homes by the end of the year.
When is anxiety normal and when is it a disorder? A psychiatrist explains.Is it normal to feel this anxious all the time? How do I know if it’s too much? These are questions many of my patients ask. Anxiety affects all of us and can be thought of as tension or worry about a situation or stressor.