Tag: science
Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
“The Climate Working Group and the Energy Department look forward to engaging with substantive comments following the conclusion of the 30-day comment period,” Woods...
Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them
There are currently more than 50 issued nationwide 404 permits—some of which still require pre-construction notifications—which are renewed once every five years. Many of...
A Secretive US Space Plane Will Soon Test Quantum Navigation Technology
The X-37B, the US Space Force’s secretive space plane, will soon take flight again.On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the...
Mexican scientists are creating mass graves of pigs in the hope they’ll someday lead to cartel victim discoveries
First the scientists dress dead swine in clothes, then they dispose of the carcasses. Some they wrap in packing tape, others they chop up....
Is MAHA losing its battle to make Americans healthier?
On a Friday evening this July, the Trump administration announced it would lay off all of the health research scientists at the Environmental Protection...
What if 10,000 steps per day was never the magic number?
Are you a step-checker? Do you look at your phone, watch, or other activity tracker a few times a day, to see if you’ve...
This Star System Contains 5 Potentially Habitable Planets
A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star L 98-59, 35...
NASA may lose close to 4,000 employees after latest deferred resignation round
The second round of deferred resignations for NASA staff closed on Friday, and the agency says roughly 3,000 employees applied to leave, according to...
A ‘Grand Unified Theory’ of Math Just Got a Little Bit Closer
“We mostly believe that all the conjectures are true, but it’s so exciting to see it actually realized,” said Ana Caraiani, a mathematician at...
The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The country watched in horror as torrential rain drenched Texas earlier...