Jessica Irvine 
In the light of the setting sun, the water lapping against the rocky shore glistened like freshly spilt ink. Despite the fact that it is frigid to the touch, this cold environment is home to a wide range of wildlife including bowhead whales, polar bears, beluga whales, seals, walruses, and more – all threatened with …
An aerial view of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, including the STAR and sPHENIX detectors, is seen in this image. The upcoming physics run at RHIC marks a new era as sPHENIX, a new detector that has been in development for a decade, observes the collisions between gold atoms at …
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on May 5 that COVID-19 is no longer a global public health emergency. This is due to decreasing deaths and hospitalizations related to the virus, as well as the high levels of immunity gained from vaccinations or previous infection with SARS-CoV-2. However, the pandemic is not yet over and …
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter The shape of our noses may be determined by a genetic material inherited from Neanderthals, new research suggests. A new study led by UCL researchers found that a …
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The eruption of a volcano on Spain’s La Palma island took a toll on nearby fish. Sander Meertins / Alamy Stock Photo This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. They found the victims floating in the water. Some had …
Here’s how to balance the material and immaterial in your romantic aspirations. getty We often consider money as a problematic factor that contaminates the essence of love. Simultaneously, love might be deemed as a naïve, delusional state that has no place in mature discussions about finances. However, the fact remains that both money and love …
Waste water investigators in Las Vegas film any violations of water usage and either plant a warning flag on the lawn for first-time offenders or log a fine for repeat offenders. Despite being known as an oasis of overindulgence, the city of Las Vegas has become a model of water conservation due to severe drought …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Crusts, cracks and other geologic features on sand dunes near the Martian equator are leading researchers to believe there may have been water there much more recently than previously thought. The features, likely caused by the movement of thawed, salty water, turned up in images taken by China’s …
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter A group of butterflies with orange wings and dark eyespots have been named Saurona after the Lord Of The Rings villain. These butterflies possess black rings on their …
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Grotte Mandrin in southern France and Ksar Akil in Lebanon are both sites of immense archaeological interest. The former is not a vast cave, but rather a deep overhang that offered protection to Neanderthals and other creatures that occupied it for thousands of years. The site features sophisticated stone tools that were systematically produced, with …