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Samsung’s End-of-Year Sale Cuts Prices on Our Favorite Phones, TVs, and Tablets
It’s that time of year again. The holidays? Nope! Winter solstice? Try again. OK, I’ll just tell you: it’s Samsung’s quarterly Discover event. I know, I know—it’s less exciting than wintry...
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Elon Musk’s New Monkey Death Claims Spur Fresh Demands for an SEC Investigation
In October 2018, a UC Davis veterinarian approved Animal 13 for use in a Neuralink experiment. She was six years old when she received her Neuralink implants. According to her pre-project physical...
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Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees
In a cavernous theater lit up with the green shapes of camels and palms at COP28 in Dubai, ecologist Thomas Crowther, former chief scientific adviser for the United Nations’ Trillion Trees Campaign,...
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The Best Travel Bags for Wherever You’re Headed
Not every good product can snag a best-in-category title, but there are several more bags we’ve tested that get our thumbs-up and deserve a mention. The North Face Base Camp for $129: Unlike most...
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Best areas for rewilding European bison
At the end of the last ice age, large herds of bison roamed across Europe. But by 1927, the European bison became extinct in the wild, with only about 60 individuals remaining in captivity. Scientists...
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Free electric vehicle charging at work? It’s possible with optimum solar
The global surge in electric vehicle sales has prompted an Australian university to explore how it could offer free or nominal EV charging facilities to staff and students by optimising its solar PV...
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Twenty-year study confirms California forests are healthier when burned — or...
A 20-year experiment in the Sierra Nevada confirms that different forest management techniques — prescribed burning, restoration thinning or a combination of both — are effective at reducing the risk...
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National policy aimed at reducing U.S. greenhouse gases also would improve...
A climate policy that raises the price of carbon-intensive products across the entire U.S. economy would yield a side benefit of reducing nitrate groundwater contamination throughout the Mississippi...
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People who see climate change as a health threat show more interest in cancer...
Brigham researchers’ findings support developing public health interventions that incorporate components of environmental health literacy alongside cancer screening efforts. The world’s climate crisis...
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A sugar analysis could reveal different types of cancer
In the future, a little saliva may be enough to detect an incipient cancer. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed an effective way to interpret the changes in sugar molecules that...
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Welch to become Premier League’s first female referee
Rebecca Welch will become the first female referee for a Premier League fixture when she officiates Fulham’s match against Burnley on 23 December. Sam Allison will also take charge of a top-flight...
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Alex Batty: Teen from Oldham missing for six years found in France
“He said he’d been living in a kind of itinerant commune. He wasn’t under any compulsion but he said he found his mother a bit weird and decided he didn’t want this kind of life, and that he wanted to...
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My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk’s ‘Politically Biased’ Chatbot
Some Elon Musk enthusiasts have been alarmed to discover in recent days that Grok, his supposedly “truth-seeking” artificial intelligence was in actual fact a bit of a snowflake. Grok, built by Musk’s...
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Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit Goes Deep on How It Disrupts Cybercrime
The DCU’s hybrid technical and legal approach to chipping away at cybercrime is still unusual, but as the cybercriminal ecosystem has evolved—alongside its overlaps with state-backed hacking...
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Extracting uranium from seawater as another source of nuclear fuel
Oceans cover most of Earth’s surface and support a staggering number of lifeforms, but they’re also home to a dilute population of uranium ions. And — if we can get these particular ions out of the...
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The solar forest
A verdant forest is one of the most iconic symbols of the power of nature, from the abundance of plant and animal life that shelters among its thick vegetation to the positive impact it has on Earth’s...
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Beef farming that keeps cattle on lifelong grass diets may have higher carbon...
Beef operations that keep cattle on lifelong grass-based diets may have an overall higher carbon footprint than those that switch cattle to grain-based diets partway through their lives. Daniel...
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This adaptive roof tile can cut both heating and cooling costs
About half of an average American building’s energy consumption is spent on heating and cooling. That’s a lot of money spent, fossil fuel burned and strain on an aging energy infrastructure during...
View ArticleEU to open membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova
Earlier this year, Moldova warned that Russia was seeking to seize power in Chisinau. Ms Sandu said Moldovans were now feeling Europe’s “warm embrace” and congratulated her compatriots on what she...
View ArticleGermany arrests over alleged Hamas anti-Jewish plot
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote in a statement on X (formerly Twitter) that the seven people arrested were “acting on behalf of Hamas”. But while federal prosecutors in...
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