On Jan. 31, students, library staff, researchers, and community members gathered at the University of Florida’s (UF) Marston Science Library for the Environmental Monitoring through Education, Research, and Geospatial Engagement (EMERGE) NASA Data Hackathon. This initiative empowers libraries, educators, and individuals to engage in public health and environmental science using real-world data tools and citizen…
Who’s ready to start their week off with some thrills? It might be a Monday, but the excitement of the weekend does not have to end. One of my favorite categories on Netflix is thrillers, a diverse genre with plenty of options. Whether you want action or horror with your excitement, the streamer’s thriller page…
The Hubble Space Telescope caught a rare moment on camera months ago, getting a chance to watch a comet break up as it hurtled through space. By sheer coincidence, Hubble was able to witness comet K1 fragmenting into at least four pieces after it had passed the sun last November. Now, a sequence of extraordinary…
A huge heat dome is spreading across the United States and it is shattering March temperature records. On Monday, National Weather Service meteorologist Gregg Gallina said the heat covers an unusually large area. Weather historians say the dome has already smashed statewide March records in 14 states. By Wednesday parts of the Plains will reach…
Known from a single skull discovered in South Africa in 1952, Cistecynodon parvus has been shuffled across the evolutionary tree: described at various times as a close relative of advanced cynodonts, a juvenile of another species and even something outside the group altogether. Now, a new study using computed tomography (CT) scans to digitally reconstruct…
March 23, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Why the LaGuardia plane crash was so destructive Engineers explain how a collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck at one of New York’s busiest airports turned deadly By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron Spencer Platt/Getty Images The shocking…
We now know that the Albanese government will very likely introduce an extra levy imposed on gas producers’ high profits. The prime minister’s department has requested Treasury modelling of additional levies on gas companies in response to the Iran crisis that is driving up energy costs for Australians. The department was reported as saying that…
Mel Olken Former executive director of the IEEE Power & Energy Society Fellow, 92; died 9 January Olken became the first executive director of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) in 1995. In 2002 he left the position to serve as founding editor in chief of the society’s Power & Energy Magazine. Olken led…
After smashing March heat records in 14 states and the U.S. as a whole, the gigantic heat dome that’s baked the Southwest is creeping eastward and may end up being one of the most expansive heat waves in American history, meteorologists and weather historians said. And it’s not going away for awhile, maybe not till…
A paper published in the journal Quaternary International reveals a distinctive technological behavior at level TD10.2-BB of Gran Dolina (Atapuerca, Burgos), characterized by the almost exclusive use of local chert and linked to one of the earliest pieces of evidence of communal hunting in the human evolutionary record, dated to around 400,000 years ago. Source:…
