For most of the year, ice blankets the waterways of the northern Canadian Arctic Archipelago. But during the brief summer melt season, the stark white and gray landscape transforms into a colorful, dynamic environment. On a particularly striking day in 2022, sediment plumes and fractured sea ice traced swirling eddies in a branch of the…
Researchers on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sounds and believe the discovery could help scientists understand how the animals communicate. The recording is the song of a humpback whale, a species of large whale known for its complex songs. Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Massachusetts, say…
Long-term observations of WOH G64 — once considered the most extreme red supergiant star in its galaxy — reveal that the star has undergone a dramatic transition, possibly shedding part of its outer layers as it entered a hotter and rarer stellar phase. An artist’s reconstruction of the red supergiant WOH G64. Image credit: ESO…
Countries in Africa, where farmers depend heavily on imported fertiliser and a large share of household income goes on food, are particularly vulnerable to supply chain disruptions caused by the war in the Middle East, experts have said. The conflict has drastically disrupted trade through the strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane not just…
There was scant data behind ending the Covid vaccine recommendation for pregnant people and children, according to internal memos made public because of a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The memos overlooked hundreds of studies on the benefits and safety of Covid vaccination and set the precedent for making…
11 am PDT / 2 pm EDT / 7 pm CET The biosphere transmits data 9 orders of magnitude faster than the technosphere. A new class of nanophotonic tools is beginning to close that gap. In this webinar, Prof. Dionne will present VINPix: Si-photonic resonators with high-Q factors (thousands to millions), subwavelength mode volumes, and…
A drug to treat Parkinson’s disease can be made from waste plastic bottles using a pioneering method, a study shows. The approach harnesses the power of bacteria to transform post-consumer plastic into L-DOPA, a frontline medication for the neurological disorder. It is the first time a natural, biological process has been engineered to turn plastic…
A 13.9-foot-tall (4.24 meters) bronze equestrian statue of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. (Image credit: Getty Images) QUICK FACTS Name: Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius What it is: A bronze statue of a Roman emperor on horseback Where it is from: Rome, Italy When it was made: Circa A.D. 175 The tradition of depicting emperors on…
Low fi fun from Texas Today’s puzzles all come from … the Hyde Park Math Zine! This delightful publication is written in pen on a single folded sheet of paper, has a print run of 30 copies, and is distributed in the neighbourhood of Hyde Park in Austin, Texas. Continue reading… Source: Read Full Article
For years, scientists have been keeping a wary eye on the massive system of currents that carry water and nutrients across the ocean from Greenland to Antarctica. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation plays a large part in stabilizing the global climate, but it appears to have been weakening in recent years as the Earth warms….
