‘Eve’ author Cat Bohannon says she reads differently after becoming a mother
Author and researcher Cat Bohannon updates the traditional story of our species in “Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 ...
Science News16h
Earth’s ancient ‘greenhouse’ conditions were hotter than thought
A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.
Science Friday7h
Earth May Once Have Had A Ring Like Saturn
The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.
The Earth Institute Columbia University22h
Andrew Gelman's U.S. Election Model Is Tracking the Candidates' Chances
Gelman, a statistics and political science professor, has many irons in the fire, including The Economist's election tracker.
National Audubon Society17h
Something Funny Happens When Rosemary Mosco Mixes Art and Science
II. The silhouette of a teenager slumps, head bowed, before an enormous desk with a “Guidance Counselor” nameplate. “You ...
ExtremeTech on MSN21h
NASA Finishes Building Core of Roman Space Telescope
Upon completion, the Roman Telescope will head into space and take up residence at the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange point. That's ...
Scientists in South Africa say they have identified the first known outbreak of rabies in seals
Scientists in South Africa say they have identified an outbreak of rabies in seals that is believed to be the first time the ...
The new Microsoft Flight Simulator will be a lot smaller
The current version of Microsoft Flight Simulator needs over 130GB of storage, but that’s just for the base version of the ...
Titan submersible's scientific director says the sub malfunctioned just prior to the Titanic dive
The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the ...
Tribes have long studied how to preserve our most vulnerable ecosystems. Researchers in Mass. are listening.
A handful of prominent institutions are blending their research strategies with Indigenous knowledge to better conserve and ...
Science Daily12h
Lake ice quality degrading as planet warms -- skaters, hockey players, ice truckers on thin ice
Ice may look safe for a game of pick-up hockey on the lake, but as a new study has found, looks can be deceiving. Warming winters are not only affecting ice thickness and timing -- when a lake freezes ...
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Literacy Launch aims to grow ranks of early readers in Mass.
Kids in Massachusetts, and nationwide, are behind on reading.In her State of the Commonwealth address at the beginning of ...