WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in damage linked to climate change. The conservative-majority…
Digital technologies are widely viewed as drivers of efficiency, growth, and innovation. However, their contribution to climate change is significantly greater than previously understood. A new study published in the journal Communications…
When Lucía Torres tells stories about nature through video, she starts with people. That was the case in one of her favorite reports, about a small town in Mexico that was forced to relocate after years of rising sea levels and increasing storms…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of boxwork formations — the low ridges seen here with hollows in between them — using its Mastcam on Sept. 26, 2025, the 4,671st Martian day, or sol, of the mission. These…
Plastic contamination in freshwater ecosystems continues to rise, resulting in micro- and nanoparticle accumulation in the aquatic environment. A new study by an aquatic ecology group at the University of Eastern Finland investigated how these…
UNSW engineers have tackled a longstanding problem at the heart of global agriculture: how to make urea for fertilizer without the intensity of emissions associated with fossil-fuel-powered factories. The solution is outlined in a study published…
At the heart of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole — a ginormous entity with a mass so large, it can outweigh millions, if not billions, of suns.
According to new research, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, these giants…
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Strange signals coming from the Arctic in 2023 were assumed to be a seiche (trapped water with…
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new molecule which carries DNA into biological cells, to treat or vaccinate against illnesses. Many existing options rely on molecules with a strong positive charge, which can cause…
It’s a tail as old as time.
Scientists may have discovered the world’s oldest butthole after unearthing the nearly 300-million-year-old impression of a reptile’s backend in Germany, per an upcoming study in the journal Current…
