Patients with post-polio syndrome may struggle for years to find an explanation for their symptoms, only to find, once they receive a diagnosis, that there are no approved treatments and few specialists who can help. People think polio has vanished, observed one physician, “but the patients are still here.”

Extreme tactics have pushed the climate crisis to the top of the public discourse but also stirred debate over whether the activists are going too far.

The average U.S. household wastes nearly a third of the food it buys. This community is nudging its residents to change their habits.

2023 should be a good year for meteor lovers.

Climate change is contributing to electric-green algae blooms. Massachusetts wants a cleanup of the antiquated septic systems feeding the mess, but it could cost billions.

It’s a well-established therapeutic tool for allowing couples to make sense of each other, but now social media has given the idea of ‘love languages’ a real boostRecently, my boyfriend and I had a check-in. He told me that he felt as if I’d grown complacent when it came to physical affection. I bristled at the accusation, but clamped my mouth shut, mostly because he was right. Truthfully, it’s not the first time I’ve been given this relationship feedback.When it comes to physical touch, my factory setting is “awkward”. But I am truly excellent at small, thoughtful gestures...

Heavy rain, snow and wind were battering parts of California on Saturday less than a week after an “atmospheric river” pounded the West Coast.

Severe flooding brings Hogmanay disruption

Skiing was introduced into the Alps comparatively late in the 1880s, with the first ski-lift being developed in the Swiss resort of Davos in the winter of 1934. The industrial revolution was two centuries old by that point, but the world climate was still largely pre-industrial.

It was a great year for a slight lifting of the veil on the final frontier – from redirecting an asteroid to a glimpse into creationThe year has been a blast in space exploration, from Nasa’s big step in returning to moon missions, to glimpses at the origins of the universe and hope that humanity could survive the doomsday scenario of an asteroid hurtling towards Earth.These are the events that shaped 2022 in space advances: Continue reading...

Teams led by Israeli scientists transplanted tiny models of human brains in rodents that became integral parts of the animals' brains. The possible benefits to humanity are huge, as are the ethical problems

Raketen und Böller gehören für viele traditionell zum Jahreswechsel. Unter dem Lärm und dem Feinstaub leiden aber auch viele – nicht zuletzt Tiere. Wildgänse etwa werden durch die Silvesterraketen aus dem Schlaf geschreckt und flüchten gestresst hunderte Kilometer, wie eine neue Studie zeigt.

After the driest start to any year on record, California will end 2022 with snow-capped mountains, soaked roadways and—in some places—flood warnings.

The damage caused by climate change over this past year was at times so immense it was hard to comprehend. In Pakistan alone, extreme summer flooding killed thousands, displaced millions and caused over $40 billion in losses. Fall floods in Nigeria killed hundreds and displaced over 1 million people. Droughts in Europe, China and the U.S. dried out once-unstoppable rivers and slowed the flows of commerce on major arteries like the Mississippi and the Rhine.

It's slated to be a busy year of rocket launches from the Space Coast with a pace that could introduce some new names and set new records.

3M announced in mid-December that it's phasing out a family of harmful chemicals, but they're not going away.

Two CubeSats, or small satellites, are on a quest to provide insight on space weather disturbances and the subsequent impact on communication signals. The dynamic duo, the Plasma Enhancements in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere Satellite (petitSat) and Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT), arrived at the International Space Station on Nov. 27, 2022, as part of SpaceX's 26th commercial resupply mission for NASA. Both CubeSats deployed from the space station on Dec. 29, 2022, at 8:55 a.m. EST.

New research in the journal Nature Aging takes a page from the field of renewable energy and shows that genetically engineered mitochondria can convert light energy into chemical energy that cells can use, ultimately extending the life of the roundworm C. elegans. While the prospect of sunlight-charged cells in humans is more science fiction than science, the findings shed light on important mechanisms in the aging process.

A powerful transmitter in remote Alaska sent long wavelength radio signals into space Tuesday with the purpose of bouncing them off an asteroid to learn about its interior.

Nanophotonic light emitters are compact and versatile devices with wide-ranging applications in applied physics. In a new report now published on Science Advances, Ki Young Lee and a research team in physics and engineering in China and the UK, proposed to develop a topological beam emitter structure of a submicron-footprint size and high efficiency, with adaptable beam shaping capacity.

Nature has, over millions of years, evolved solutions to adapt to an array of challenges. As the challenges facing humanity become more complex, we are seeing inspiration being increasingly drawn from nature.

In 2017, BBC's Match of the Day introduced a new statistic in their post-match summaries of Premier League matches. Expected goals, or xG, is designed to tell us how many goals a team should have scored based on the quality of the chances they created in a game. It is loved by amateur and professional statisticians alike who want to use data to analyze performance.

Mit 1. Jänner wurden die Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG) und die Geologische Bundesanstalt (GBA) zur „GeoSphere Austria“ (GSA) fusioniert. In der neuen „Bundesanstalt für Geologie, Geophysik, Klimatologie und Meteorologie“ werden die Kompetenzen der beiden über mehr als 150 Jahre getrennt agierenden Forschungsanstalten gebündelt.

A nurse says she is heartbroken that nothing can be done to save her house from coastal erosion.

General Fusion of Canada is developing magnetized target fusion and is one of the top five fusion energy startups in terms of overall funding. They have raised about $322 million from Jeff Bezos, the Canadian and Malaysian governments. I track over 30 nuclear fusion projects and think this one, Helion Energy and HB11 Energy are ... Read more