Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thousands of years — A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing carbon stored over millennia, meaning higher CO2 emissions than assumed
A physicist tried to prove trees aren't living things by their thermodynamic definition. Spent months on it. Trees won.
Why Being Poor Is Expensive — Poverty isn’t just having less money, it makes everything more expensive. From fees to bad options, one setback can spiral into long-term struggle. Here’s how the trap works. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science
Escher: The paradoxical artist beloved by mathematicians — A new retrospective of M.C. Escher’s work opens this week. Explore some of his most mind-bending, mathematically inspired works here
The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up — When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to teach u
National Weather Service — Official US weather forecasts.
How Alpha Particles Can Break Computer Chips — In the 1970s, Intel couldn't work out what was damaging the DRAM on their microchips. The cause turned out to be the ceramic that the chip was encased in. It was secretly flipping 1s to 0s. But how?
Himalayan wolf-dog hybrids emerge as a threat to wolves and people — In Ladakh, Himalayan wolves are increasingly breeding with feral dogs, giving rise to a new animal known as khipshang that could injure humans and outcompete other carnivores
Complex life on Earth may last 500 million years longer than expected — As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life more complex than a microbe – but that might take longer than we thought
Engineering Channel — How engineering works.
How embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of “genetic brakes” — In mice, medical professor Marie Kmita and her team at the IRCM discover how certain proteins switch off the right genes at the right time, allowing others to take over and complete development.
Red squirrel sickness reports under investigation — Tests are being carried out to establish if there is an outbreak of squirrelpox in the Borders.
Prime Day drone deal: Get the DJI Mini 4K drone for $209 — Our favorite budget flyer is down to its lowest-ever price.
proun Share New Song "Wall": Listen — We at Stereogum are fucking with proun’s forthcoming album Maybe Luck. The Austin band has us hooked with “Miracles” and “Coloring Pages,” the latter of which made our list of the best songs of the week. Now they’re back with another fantasti
NASA Announces Realignment to Accelerate Mission Delivery - NASA — NASA announced Friday an agencywide realignment to increase mission focus and move out on the National Space Policy. These changes position the agency to