North America May Be Dripping Away Deep under the Midwest
A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say By Meghan Bartels edited by Andrea Thompson Victor Josan/Alamy
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Shift from Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy Will Persist despite Trump Policies, New Analyses Say
CLIMATEWIRE | America’s energy transition will slow — but won’t stop entirely — if President Donald Trump is successful in repealing environmental regulations and slashing green subsidies, according to a
NASA and NOAA Trump Funding Cuts Jeopardize These Key Climate and Space Projects
Preliminary copies of some of the US government’s spending plans suggest that President Donald Trump’s administration intends to slash climate and space science across some US agencies. At risk is
Alan Turing’s Lost Work Could Reveal How Tigers Got Their Stripes
Today mathematician Alan Turing is world-famous because he helped the Allies achieve victory against the Axis powers by deciphering an encryption that was considered unbreakable. That story inspired the 2014
Ancient computer’s gears may not have been able to turn
Humans The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming By Alex Wilkins Facebook / Meta
Should your menstrual phase dictate what you eat and how you exercise?
Columnist and Health The idea of varying your lifestyle throughout your menstrual cycle to help relieve PMS or period pain seems intuitive, but the evidence reveals a nuanced picture, finds
Vegan diets have good levels of key amino acids, but there’s a catch
Health It is harder for our bodies to absorb key nutrients from plant-based foods, so some vegans may be short on essential amino acids for healthy muscles and bones despite
Iron Age site was a purple dye factory for centuries
Humans Beginning around 3000 years ago, Tel Shiqmona in modern-day Israel was a major centre for the production of Tyrian purple, a valuable commodity produced from marine snails By James
Ancient humans may have faced radiation risk 41,000 years ago
A magnetic field disturbance could have allowed auroras to occur more widely 41,000 years ago EvgeniyQ/iStockphoto/Getty Images Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field weakened to just a fraction of
The ‘king of poisons’ is building up in rice
Throughout the Yangtze River Delta, a region in southern China famed for its widespread rice production, farmers grow belts of slender green stalks. Before they reach several feet tall and
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