[ad_1] As Measles Continues to Rise, CDC Muffles Vaccine Messaging By burying an assessment with updates and recommendations about the U.S.’s current measles outbreaks, the CDC has signaled an alarming shift in its public messaging By Jen Schwartz edited by Jeanna Bryner A health worker prepares a dose of the measles vaccine at a health…
[ad_1] Marshall (voiced by Dave King) finds the amazing Blue Angel mushroom Warner Bros. Discovery Common Side EffectsJoseph Bennett, Steve HelyChannel 4 (UK); Cartoon Network, Max (US) One of the best shows I watched last year was Scavengers Reign, a lushly animated sci-fi series about an interstellar cargo ship that crashes on a planet full…
[ad_1] “That’s so random” is a common saying people use when they see or experience something unexpected. But as a concept in physics, true mathematical randomness has long proven elusive — until now. A team of computer scientists using quantum computing methods has, for the first time, generated a truly random number, they report in…
[ad_1] The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has closed its investigation into Flight 7 of SpaceX’s huge Starship vehicle, which ended with a dramatic explosion over the Atlantic Ocean. Flight 7 sent Starship aloft from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas on Jan. 16. Things went well at first; Starship’s first-stage booster, known as Super…
[ad_1] Stone tools traditionally attributed to European and western Asian Neandertals have turned up nearly a continent away in southern China. Artifacts unearthed at a river valley site called Longtan include distinctive stone cutting and scraping implements and the rocks from which these items were struck. Until now, such items have been linked only to…
[ad_1] Every night, bats emerge out of roosts in massive numbers, creating what scientists have called a “cocktail party nightmare” of clashing echolocations. Nobody knew how bats managed this severe sensorial challenge. Now, scientists from Tel Aviv University and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) have tracked bats within a group of thousands…
[ad_1] Top U.S. Scientists Speak Out against ‘Climate of Fear’ Wrecking U.S. Research Despite fears that speaking out will make them targets, top researchers warn that the Trump administration’s “wholesale assault on U.S. science” will harm the nation By Dan Vergano edited by Dean Visser Demonstrators take part in a “Stand Up For Science” rally…
[ad_1] A cave orb spider blickwinkel/Alamy Spiders known for elaborate circular webs have altered their spinning style in dark spaces to create apparent tripwires for walking prey. Those that make circular webs are known as orb-weavers, and most of them trap mosquitoes, beetles and other flying insects in sticky spiral frame webs sparsely attached to…
[ad_1] Early warning systems for natural disasters have undoubtedly saved countless lives. Detectors that monitor signs of impending earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornadoes, among others, provide crucial hours — sometimes days — for us to take evasive action. What if we could do the same thing for heart attacks? A group of French researchers working with…
[ad_1] As photographers with long lenses set up along Water Street on the shoreline of Passamaquoddy Bay in Saint Andrews by the Sea, New Brunswick, Canada, they all had the same thing on their LCD screens. Not an eclipsed sunrise but flocks of sandpipers and other shorebirds flocking against a reddening dawn sky. The low…