Judge Blocks E.P.A. From Using Civil Rights Law in Pollution Case
The decision is a setback for a Biden administration strategy for protecting minority communities with numerous polluting industries nearby.A federal…
Helen Fisher, Who Researched the Brain’s Love Circuitry, Dies at 79
A biological anthropologist, she worked with colleagues to confirm for the first time that love is hard-wired in the brain.Helen…
Scientists Made a List of Lost Birds and Now They Want Us to Find Them
In 2022, an ornithologist high in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains of northern Colombia spotted the shimmering emerald…
Are Researchers Overcounting the Number of Fish in the World’s Oceans?
A new study suggests that estimates of the health of the world’s fisheries may be too optimistic.Counting the number of…
Many Climate Policies Struggle to Cut Emissions, Study Finds
The most effective ones tend to combine several emissions-cutting strategies, not a stand-alone approach, according to an examination of 1,500…
Psychedelics May Give the Living a Glimpse Into Near-Death States
A survey revealed similarities between these two altered states of consciousness.One person felt a sensation of “slowly floating into the…
Bifungites Fossils Are Found All Over but What Made Them Was a Mystery
Scientists in Brazil identified marine worms that made at least some trace fossil burrows called Bifungites.If you know where to…
New Study Re-Evaluates ‘Worst Case’ Scenario for Thwaites Glacier
Global warming is putting the continent’s ice at risk of destruction in many forms. But one especially calamitous scenario might…
How Did the First Cells Arise? With a Little Rain, Study Finds.
Researchers stumbled upon an ingredient that can stabilize droplets of genetic material: water.Rain may have been an essential ingredient for…
A ‘Speedy Little Star’ May Be on Course to Escape Our Galaxy
The so-called hypervelocity object, which is either a low-mass star or a brown dwarf, is traveling through the Milky Way…