Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer and the oldest woman ever to go to space, died this past week. She was 87. She passed away on Wednesday, June 8th, at her apartment in an
Last weekend’s brutal NYC heat wave had me craving a frozen drink almost every afternoon. Normally, that would mean sweating through a walk to 7-Eleven for a slurpee. This time, though, I stayed
Jenifer Chatfield, a high-ranking U.S. official whose family breeds wild animals for profit, will reportedly lead the U.S. delegation attending next week’s meeting of CITES, the global wildlife treaty, in Geneva, Switzerland, multiple
In Indonesian Borneo, conservation organization KehatiKu is testing a new approach: paying local people to photograph wildlife and upload the sightings through an app. In just one year, the project has collected around
In a breakthrough that could transform inkjet printing in microfabrication, researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have demonstrated a novel method to precisely control the drying patterns of nanoparticle-laden droplets without introducing chemical additives.
In a groundbreaking study published in Cell Death Discovery, researchers have unveiled how a cell’s innate ability to synthesize polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) critically influences its susceptibility to ferroptosis—a type of programmed cell
In a groundbreaking study poised to reshape our understanding of chronic pain management among the elderly, researchers have unveiled new insights into the dynamic interplay between moment-to-moment pain experiences and physical activity patterns.
The giant anteater is easy to turn into a curiosity. Its head narrows into a long tube. It sees poorly. It opens termite mounds with strong claws and gathers insects with a tongue
U.S. federal cybersecurity agency CISA said it did not have a prepared response plan for how it should handle a cybersecurity incident in May, after an investigative reporter notified the agency that a
An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) recently made a first-ever discovery when observing SDSS J110546.07+145202.4, a spiral galaxy located about 1.8 billion light-years from
