A decade later, Flint’s water crisis continues
This story was originally published by Capital B. At the edge of Saginaw Street, a hand-painted sign is etched into a deserted storefront. “Please help, God. Clean-up Flint.” Behind it,…
Europe’s warming up at nearly twice the global average, says new report
Europe is warming up at twice the global average, leading to deadly heatwaves and severe flooding, according to the European State of the Climate (ESOTC) report for the year 2023,…
Electronically Assisted Astronomy on the Cheap
I hate the eye strain that often comes with peering through a telescope at the night sky—I’d rather let a camera capture the scene. But I’m too frugal to sink…
11 Best Sleeping Bags (2024): Ultralight, for Car Campers, Warm Weather, for Kids
John Muir famously set off for the mountains with “some bread and tea in a pair of blankets with some sugar and a tin cup.” I admire his ultralight spirit…
Hannah Green wins LPGA Tour’s JM Eagle LA Championship for 2nd straight year
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hannah Green won LPGA Tour’s JM Eagle LA Championship for the second straight year Sunday, holing out twice from off the greens in a pivotal back-nine…
Interview with ESA chief Josef Aschbacher
Shaping an ambitious and steady space agenda for Europe requires not only diplomatic aplomb but also a firm grounding in science and engineering. Indeed, those attributes are must-haves in working…
Parthenogenesis in captivity: Solo aquarium stingray is pregnant
Charlotte, a rust-colored stingray the size of a serving platter, has spent much of her life gliding around the confines of a storefront aquarium in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains.She’s 2,300…
Here’s why we should put a gravitational wave observatory on the moon
Gravitational Wave science holds great potential that scientists are eager to develop. Is a gravitational wave observatory on the moon the way forward? Credit: NASA/Goddard/LRO. Scientists detected the first long-predicted…
More Than a Trillion Cicadas Are Coming. Are You Ready?
Cicadas spend the vast majority of their lifetime—more than 90%—underground. But this spring, two broods of more than a trillion cicadas will make their debut above the soil across the…
How to destroy a black hole
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse…