Science
Scientific discoveries and research
Saturday Citations: Predicting earthquakes; two types of water; observing event horizons
Howdy, pards, here's a quick roundup of the week's science news: Moose, previously thought to be a transplanted species, are actually native to Colorado. A digi...
Lamprey brain atlas reveals 450-million-year blueprint of vertebrate brains
What did the very first complex vertebrate brain look like? To find out, scientists turned to an unlikely time traveler: the lamprey, a jawless, eel-like fish w...
New driving model predicts split-second crash avoidance with humanlike accuracy
Scientists at Delft University of Technology, in collaboration with Waymo, have developed a new model that predicts with high accuracy how human drivers respond...
The bond between humans and dogs remains remarkably consistent across societies, cross-cultural study reveals
A new study by an international research team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) has...
UK sets new June temperature record for third day in a row: Met Office
The UK broke the record for a June temperature for the third day in a row on Friday, the Met Office weather agency said, as a sweltering heat wave strained scho...
Germany sees hottest temperature on record of 41.3C: Weather service
Germany saw its highest temperature ever recorded Friday at 41.3°C (106.3°F), according to preliminary weather service data, as the country braces for the possi...
Participatory theater helps young people become active citizens
In Estonian schools, social studies classes provide a thorough education on what democracy is and what it means to be a citizen. However, knowledge alone is not...
Vulnerable butterfly recorded in the Botanical Garden at Uppsala
The Botanical Garden in Uppsala was recently visited by animal ecology researchers, who conducted a BioBlitz to find, identify and record as many insects as pos...
Uranus, Neptune may be magma worlds, not ice giants
Uranus and Neptune remain two of the most mysterious objects in the solar system, primarily because they have been visited only by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft i...
Proactive employees with high emotional intelligence do a better job, study finds
In many organizations, large hierarchical gaps exist within work teams, raising the question of how frontline employees can strive for upward mobility in their...
Coal pollution reaches one of Earth's most remote mountain regions
The Himalayas are often seen as one of Earth's great natural barriers, separating the heavily populated and industrialized regions of South Asia from the remote...
Why Ho Chi Minh City's pollution sources may have been misread for years
Biomass burning, including the combustion of wood, charcoal and agricultural residues, is a major source of PM2.5, a fine particulate matter that degrades air q...