Regenerating tropical forests pull carbon dioxide from the air, but a lack of nitrogen in the soil could slow this process, a new Nature Communications study has found. Restoring tropical forests is widely seen as one of the most important ways…
A preclinical study published in Nature has found evidence that the hippocampus, the brain region that stores memory, also reorganizes memories to anticipate future outcomes.
The findings, from researchers at the Brandon Lab at…
The Super Bowl is less than two weeks away, and you may have your sights set on a new TV, especially if you contemplated buying one during October or Black Friday sales. But how much are you willing to pay for the TV you really want?
CNET’s…
Satellite images have revealed that dozens of dams across the U.S. — including the biggest one in Texas — may be at risk of collapse due to the ground shifting beneath them. Inspections do not typically account for these movements,…
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Another Earth or a blip in the data? We may never find out
An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that it’s…
A new lawsuit claims that Meta’s WhatsApp — the popular messaging platform — has made misleading privacy claims about the app.
The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in San…
Billionaire tech mogul Reid Hoffman is urging his fellow tech moguls in Silicon Valley to not just condemn the killings of two American citizens at the hands of Border Patrol agents, but to stop pacifying President Trump.
In posts on X and an…
The Polish government said Russian government hackers broke into parts of the country’s energy grid infrastructure, taking advantage of its poor security.
On Friday, Poland’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), which is part of the…
NASA‘s next moon mission is getting close enough that engineers are about to rehearse the final steps, but the space agency still can’t circle a launch date on the calendar for Artemis…
