by TeachThought Staff What is learned helplessness? Definition Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a person, after repeated failures or negative experiences, believes they have no control over situations’ outcomes and stops trying to improve or change them. Below is an example of Learned Helplessness in the classroom. Instructor: The biggest fear for […]
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More By now, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude have become an everyday word across the globe. Many people have started worrying that AI is coming for their jobs, so it is ironic to see […]
How To Talk To Young Learners About Their Digital Footprint Being born into an interconnected world, children acquire an online presence at a much younger age than previous generations. They are on social media every day, sharing pictures, videos, and posts from their everyday lives. And even before that, their parents share their pictures as […]
We make lasting connections through play, but the role of play in learning is an idea that continues to meet resistance. Part of the reason could be tone. We like our learning serious, intentional, and academic. This is reflected through a parallel insistence on an outcomes-based learning system where learning objectives are determined and assessments […]
Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) could be spotted with the naked eye in the UK on Saturday night. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
Whooping cough cases have increased to record levels since 2014, with four times as many cases compared to last year, data from the CDC showed. There have been more than 16,000 cases this year alone and two confirmed deaths, statistics revealed. In 2023, more than 3,700 cases were registered nationwide. “The number of reported whooping […]
Electric cargo bicycles come in two configurations. The first are front-loader bikes, also known as bakfiets or Long Johns, which suspend a cargo box between the rider and the front wheel. The other layout is a midtail or longtail, which extends the rear end of the bicycle to accommodate more bodies and gear. Both shapes […]
In just a few years, brand-name injectable drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound have rocketed to fame as billion-dollar annual sellers for weight loss as well as to control blood sugar levels and reduce the risk of heart disease. But the price of these injections is steep: They cost about US$800-$1,000 per month, […]
So overall, the weight loss we see from these high-quality studies is very small, and mostly with no change in body composition. The studies included people with different diseases, and most were from the Middle East or the Indian subcontinent. So we can’t be certain we would see this effect in people with other health […]
Our gleaming blue marble of a planet is a treasure that shimmers and sparkles in the darkness of space. Most of humanity will never get a first-person view of this magnificent sight. But the rare few that experience the wonder of extraterrestrial travel have documented their journeys in detail, giving us a breathtaking, beautiful glimpse […]
CLIMATEWIRE | In 1925, a small-town Ford dealer in Georgia named Albert Luce attached a wooden coach to the top of a Model T frame and sold it to the owner of a cement plant who wanted a way to transport his workers. The idea evolved into a business and nearly a century later the […]
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself — The truth is, it’s getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality. Source link Please […]
Gamers and developers looking for their next target spec will want to pay attention to NRG esports and Intel joining forces for a collaboration intent on showcasing Intel’s latest processing power. The pair are joining up for a Valorant-focused Night Market designed to emulate the look and feel of Riot’s hotshot shooting game. Headlining the […]
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital was hit by Hurricane Milton earlier this week Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Wire/Alamy A children’s hospital that lost access to water in the wake of Hurricane Milton is now using a device that can collect drinking water directly from the air, in a test of how such atmospheric water harvesting […]
Archeologists have gotten increasingly better at reading the dirt. Over time, they’ve learned to pull more and more data from smaller and smaller samples of Earth. A technique called microstratigraphy pushes that concept to the limit. It allows archeologists to detect miniscule traces of human and animal presence that conventional excavation techniques may have missed. […]
One definitive way to link ecological changes to evolution would require a time machine. Traveling both backward and forward would allow observers to see how particular animals adapt to changes in climate, environment, or other variables. Since no such machine exists — except in the movies — a group of researchers leaned on the next […]
Citations P.F. Velasco and H.J. Spiers. Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about navigation. Trends in Cognitive Science. Vol. 28, January 2024, p. 56. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.09.004. P.F. Velasco and A. Gleizer. Mental maps, practical mastery and environmental experience: an analysis of the wayfinding culture of Evenki reindeer herders and hunters. The […]
What Does Cognitive Science Include, And How Does It Relate To eLearning? When we talk about eLearning, we don’t just mean text-based online lessons. In fact, creating an effective online learning experience is more complicated than that. And that’s where cognitive science comes in. To keep learners from losing interest or getting overwhelmed, you need […]
Spear-throwing tools called atlatls allow humans to launch projectiles over great distances, but Neanderthals apparently never used them – and an experiment involving a 9-metre-tall platform may explain why Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
Dear We Are Teachers, It’s my third week of teaching at a new school this year, but my 10th year overall teaching 8th grade. My new principal called me in last week and said several parents have complained that I’m “overstepping” my boundaries as a teacher by inserting my opinion on “nonacademic, nondisciplinary issues.” When […]
Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called Trojan asteroids, are already known for the other three giant planets. “Saturn was sort of the odd man out, if I can call it that, because even though it’s the second most massive planet in the […]
Two years ago, Tesla’s Optimus prototype was an underwhelming mess of exposed wires that could only operate in a carefully controlled stage presentation. Last night, Tesla’s “We, Robot” event featured much more advanced Optimus prototypes that could walk around without tethers and interact directly with partygoers. It was an impressive demonstration of the advancement of […]
CLIMATEWIRE | Forecasters warned for days that Tampa could be staring down “the big one” — a direct hit from a major hurricane that threatened to submerge much of Florida’s second-largest metro area with never-before-seen storm surge. The nightmare scenario didn’t happen. Hurricane Milton tracked slightly south of its worst-case trajectory, making landfall Wednesday night […]
“I work with coaches and other people who know too much.” Kate Solovieva is a former professor of psychology, a PN master coach, and PN’s director of community engagement. And the above quote has become one of her taglines. Though Coach Kate has coached thousands of “regular” clients, her specialty is coaching other coaches. Through […]
A pair of male lions that roamed Kenya more than a century ago gained notoriety as the “man-eaters of Tsavo.” To be sure, the big cats hunted and ate people building a local railway. But a novel DNA analysis of hairs stuck in the cats’ tooth cavities is revealing a diverse — and occasionally surprising […]
On Thursday, AMD announced its new MI325X AI accelerator chip, which is set to roll out to data center customers in the fourth quarter of this year. At an event hosted in San Francisco, the company claimed the new chip offers “industry-leading” performance compared to Nvidia’s current H200 GPUs, which are widely used in data […]
NASA/ISS Hurricanes Helene and Milton – which have devastated parts of the south-east United States – have bookended an exceptionally busy period of tropical storms. In less than two weeks, five hurricanes formed, which is not far off what the Atlantic would typically get in an entire year. The storms were powerful, gaining strength with […]
posted on October 11, 2024 Ever feel like more of a juggler than a teacher? With so much going on in the classroom and so little time to prep, lesson planning often ends up happening in the evenings and on the weekends. Even if you would like to do more hands-on activities with your students, […]
October 11, 2024 4 min read Humanity’s Origins Paint Our Ancestors as Lovers, Not Fighters Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals By Daniel Vergano The reconstructed face of Krijn, the oldest Neanderthal found in the Netherlands, displayed at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden […]
by TeachThought Staff The internet loves many things. It loves cats, for example. Memes, too. It loves videos, which means it loves YouTube. It loves recipes and Wikipedia and alarming misdiagnoses on WebMd and, among other things (and getting to the point here), quotes. This is partly due to the succinct nature of a quote […]
On October 10, 2018, Tyndall Air Force Base on the Gulf of Mexico—a pillar of American air superiority—found itself under aerial attack. Hurricane Michael, first spotted as a Category 2 storm off the Florida coast, unexpectedly hulked up to a Category 5. Sustained winds of 155 miles per hour whipped into the base, flinging power […]
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. These are the best ways to measure your body fat —Jessica Hamzelou We all know that being overweight is not great for your health—it’s linked to metabolic diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular problems. […]
October 11, 2024 3 min read Third-Trimester Abortions Are Moral and Necessary Health Care Abortions after 20 weeks are about ending suffering. To deny someone that care is barbaric By Cara C. Heuser They travel dozens, hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles seeking health care. They come with fetal conditions so severe, their babies will not […]
It sounds like a joke: poppy seeds infused with opioids. Indeed, it was a plotline on the sitcom Seinfeld. But for some it has been a tragedy. People have died after drinking tea brewed from unwashed poppy seeds. On supporting science journalism If you’re enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By […]
While Florida recovers from Hurricane Milton, the second dangerous storm to hit the U.S. Southeast in just a couple of weeks, a flood of misinformation threatens to compound the disasters. A major target of false claims is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the government body coordinating recovery efforts from Hurricanes Milton and Helene—the latter […]
Nilay and David make some predictions about Thursday evening’s Tesla event — which you’ve already seen, but we haven’t! Then they talk about the week’s gadget news, from Nintendo’s new Alarmo alarm clock to Apple’s upcoming iPads and Macs. Then Lauren Feiner joins to talk about the latest on all fronts in Google’s antitrust fight, […]
October 11, 2024 3 min read Enlisting Microbes to Break Down ‘Forever Chemicals’ Bacteria can degrade particularly tough PFAS varieties By Saima S. Iqbal A group of bacteria has proved adept at destroying the ultratough carbon-fluorine bonds that give “forever chemicals” their name. This finding boosts hopes that microbes might someday help remove these notoriously […]
I’m fond of saying that the cosmos is like a clock, with many objects and events undergoing cycles that can be measured and understood. Our calendars and clocks, after all, really are based on astronomical processes, such as the turning of Earth and its orbit around the sun. Some other objects keep a calendar, too, […]
[CLIP: Theme music] Rachel Feltman: What is it that turns speech into song? And why did humans start carrying tunes in the first place? Those are questions that scientists are still puzzling out. But some recent studies offer a few clues. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. I’m joined today by associate news […]
In 2023, neurologists at a memory clinic in China diagnosed a 19-year-old with what they believed to be Alzheimer’s disease, making him the youngest person ever to be diagnosed with the condition in the world. The male teenager began experiencing memory decline around age 17, and the cognitive losses only worsened over the years. Imaging […]
It takes forest soil decades to recover after being compacted by heavy logging equipment. That’s why Roth has digitally mapped all the logging trails and equipped tree harvesters with high-precision satellite antennas so the machines can precisely follow the same route for decades and easily find them in the chaotic aftermath of a storm. GPS data […]
Spanish is a great language to integrate into your classroom. It’s the second-most spoken language in the United States, with nearly 42 million people reporting they speak Spanish in their home. Those who enter the workforce bilingual have a significant advantage in almost every career field. When immersion isn’t possible (We can’t all move to […]
I, on the other hand, have never been all that muscular. I like to think I’m a healthy weight—but nurses in the past have advised me, on the basis of my BMI, to eat more butter and doughnuts. This is advice I never expected to receive from a health professional. (I should add here that […]
Samsung makes everything from gaming monitors to dishwashers. I’m always looking for a sale (I’m assuming you are, too), and I’ve found the best Samsung promo codes to help you save big on your most important tech purchases. At WIRED, we often review the South Korean company’s products, especially Samsung’s vast lineup of Galaxy smartphones, […]
Sally Magnusson Sally Magnusson has already written a book about how her family coped with her mother’s dementia There can’t be many people who spend years raging and grieving over the decline of a parent from dementia without wondering if it awaits them too. I’m one. My mother died of this vicious brain condition in […]
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its Services Marketplace for freelancers, up 48% in the last year; it launched the marketplace in 2021 — More than 100,000 people have been laid off in the technology industry alone this year, and — either by circumstance or choice … Source link […]
BBC Elaine Fraser recognised the symptoms of anaphylactic shock thanks to training by the school where she works When teacher Elaine Fraser collapsed at home after drinking a ginger beer, she had no idea she had an allergy. “It escalated unbelievably quickly,” Elaine recalls. “My chest was concave trying to pull in breath.” The 53-year-old […]
Game studio Windwalk announced today that it’s launching a new social software platform called Harbor, aimed at helping developers engage with their superfans and cultivate relationships with their followers. In addition, Windwalk also announced it had raised $4.5 million in funding from investors such as a16z Speedrun, Tirta Ventures, and YCombinator. According to the studio, […]
October 10, 2024 3 min read Why Hurricane Milton Caused So Many Tornadoes As Hurricane Milton barreled across Florida, it triggered dozens of tornadoes. Here’s how that process occurs By Meghan Bartels A home is seen after it was hit by a tornado in Fort Myers, Florida, on October 9, 2024, as Hurricane Milton approached. […]
Federal health officials have approved the import of certain IV fluids from overseas as hospitals across the country scramble to deal with a Hurricane Helene-inflicted shortage. The shortage occurred after floodwaters from Helene damaged Baxter International’s IV fluid manufacturing facility in Marion, N.C. The plant had supplied roughly 60 percent of the IV solution used […]
My Octopus Teacher — a documentary about the smarts of cephalopods — inspired a team of engineers to create materials that can grab and release objects with rough and irregular surfaces. Those novel materials, which have many potential uses — from helping people with disabilities to better grab objects to creating robots to assist in […]
Getty Images Elon Musk wants his new rocket to revolutionise spaceflight. And that rocket, Starship, is now the largest and most powerful spacecraft ever built. It’s also designed to be fully and rapidly reusable. His private company SpaceX, which is behind the creation, is hoping to develop a spaceship that can be used more like […]
This fluorescent technique can precisely measure minuscule distances Steffen J. Sahl / Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences The tiniest “ruler” ever is so precise that it can measure the width of a single atom within a protein. Proteins and other large molecules, or macromolecules, sometimes fold into the wrong shape, and this can affect […]
eLearning Industry Celebrates Its 12th Anniversary Another year has passed, and October 10, also known as eLI Day in our offices, is upon us. eLearning Industry is proudly celebrating its 12th anniversary, leaving behind another year of knowledge sharing, community building, and satisfied customers. Our company remains dedicated to its mission of bringing eLearning professionals […]
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It’s September 2024, and a group of American thalidomide survivors and their family members arrive in Washington, D.C., to lobby the government for support. More than 60 years have gone by since Food and Drug Administration medical examiner Frances Oldham Kelsey first stalled the new drug application for thalidomide from the pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell. Although […]
A new gene drive can copy and paste itself into the genomes of herpes simplex viruses in mice. The end goal is a version that disables the virus in humans. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
October 10, 2024 3 min read FEMA Spent Nearly Half Its Disaster Budget in Just 8 Days Without more funding, FEMA may be forced to restrict spending and suspend rebuilding projects By Thomas Frank, Anne C. Mulkern & E&E News A crane sits on the street after crashing down into the building housing the Tampa […]
After a great event last month in San Jose, Ars is switching coasts for October and descending in force on our nation’s capital. If you’re on the East Coast and want to come hang out with Ars EIC Ken Fisher and me while we talk to some neat speakers and learn some stuff, then read […]
Are you looking for some convenient all-in-one gadgets to keep your classroom moving along? Then this HP DeskJet is worth considering, especially as it’s currently available for less than $60 at Target. But grab it soon—this deal only lasts until October 12, 2024! Get it for $59.99 with the Target Circle™ Rewards Program Whether you […]
Earlier this year, Julian Mattucci, also known as “God Emperor Myco,” was creating new generations of spores from some Psilocybe subtropicalis mushrooms that he had procured online from a popular supplier. He claims to have not been “working them for potency” but rather to arrive at a cleaner, more robust genetic structure to fix issues […]
Let’s create a reality dating show unlike any other in one key aspect. First, we’ll rent a villa on a tropical island. Then we’ll fly in five men and five women, each with their own (heterosexual) dating preferences. Our goal, though, is the exact opposite of the Love Island franchise: we want absolutely zero drama. […]
October 10, 2024 6 min read 2024 Election Will Define America’s Stance on Immigration, with Consequences for Science and Technology Both presidential candidates would restrict immigration but Donald Trump would try to implement an extreme anti-immigrant agenda By Gary Stix This article is part of a series on what the 2024 presidential election means for […]
Let’s face it, people are fascinated by sharks. Whether your students are old enough to watch Jaws or are still rocking out to “Baby Shark,” they’ll still appreciate a good shark-themed activity. If you’re ready to nurture the inner artist in your shark-loving students, get their creative juices flowing with our beloved (or feared) shark […]
The new 3D scan lifts the veil of darkness and water from the wreck lying 3km beneath the surface After more than 100 years hidden in the icy waters of Antarctica, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance has been revealed in extraordinary 3D detail. For the first time we can see the vessel, which sank in […]
Getty Images Wildlife populations have plummeted, mainly due to habitat loss, WWF figures reveal Human activity is continuing to drive what conservation charity the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) calls a “catastrophic” loss of species. From elephants in tropical forests to hawksbill turtles off the Great Barrier Reef, populations are plummeting, according to a […]
Archive.org, one of the only entities to attempt to preserve the entire history of the World Wide Web and much of the broader Internet, was recently compromised in a hack that revealed data on roughly 31 million users. A little after 2 pm California time, social media sites became awash with screenshots showing what the […]
posted on October 9, 2024 By Aviv Weiss Recently, my colleague Sarah Robertson introduced the Khan Academy literacy team’s latest release, Khanmigo AI Writing Coach for Teachers, to administrators in Khan Academy District Partnerships in New Hampshire. This blog post provides key takeaways from Sarah’s presentation. You can access the full recording here. Khanmigo Writing […]
Mamma bears press pause on their early pregnancies, so that their cubs are born closer to a food filled spring. Researchers led by a team in Germany have now found this same pregnancy pause button exists in human cells too. “Although we have lost the ability to naturally enter dormancy, these experiments suggest that we […]
COVID-19 could increase the risk of major cardiac events, like strokes and heart attacks, according to a study from the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California; the University of California, Los Angeles; and Cleveland Clinic released Wednesday. The findings revealed individuals with A, B and AB blood types that contracted a severe […]
Editor’s Note (10/9/24): Hurricane Milton made landfall on October 9 around 8:30 P.M. EDT near Siesta Key, Fla. At the time, Milton was a Category 3 storm, with sustained winds of about 120 mph. Hurricane Milton is hurtling toward the western coast of Florida, and thousands of people are fleeing their homes for inland counties—or […]
For more than a century, Tampa Bay has avoided Florida’s most destructive hurricanes. Now Hurricane Milton may end that streak of luck, as the storm is expected to make landfall just south of Tampa Bay in the early hours of Thursday morning. The low-lying shoreline, still strewn with debris from last month’s Hurricane Helene, is […]
October 9, 2024 4 min read 2024 Chemistry Nobel Awarded for Cracking the Secret Code of Proteins The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to biochemist David Baker, and Google DeepMind scientists Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for predicting protein shapes and functions— and for creating entirely new ones that can improve health and the environment […]
Weight-loss drugs might make people less inclined to exercise Me 3645 Studio/Getty Images Semaglutide – the drug in medications like Ozempic and Wegovy – causes mice to exercise less. The finding suggests these weight-loss medications may reduce people’s motivation to work out. Semaglutide helps treat type 2 diabetes and obesity by mimicking a hormone called […]
Bazooka Tango announced the open beta for Shardbound, a fantasy trading card game with Web3 rewards. The company said it is making Shardbound available to players worldwide on Steam and the Epic Games Store. This release brings exclusive rewards to over 100,000 pre-registered players, including a unique set of playable cards: 1 Rare, 1 Epic, […]
The winner of Fat Bear Week has finally been crowned – and she’s no stranger to the title. Voters chose 128 Grazer, a mother bear who won Fat Bear Week last year, and whose cub was recently killed by her last remaining opponent in the competition, 32 Chunk. The competition, which started a decade ago, […]
October 9, 2024 3 min read Hurricane Milton Will Turn Helene’s Debris into Lethal Projectiles in Florida Florida is scrambling to clear storm-damaged areas before Hurricane Milton makes landfall By Thomas Frank & E&E News Debris left by Hurricane Helene is piled up in the street ahead of Hurricane Milton’s expected landfall. Bryan R. Smith/AFP […]
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Basecamp Research, which says its BaseFold model outperforms AlphaFold 2 at predicting proteins, raised a $60M Series B, for $85M in total funding — While companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to popularize the idea of using ordinary language to ask artificial intelligence agents … Source link Please enable JavaScript […]
Read more from MIT Technology Review Insights & MEDC about addressing climate change impacts About the speaker Hilary Doe, Chief Growth & Marketing Officer, Michigan Economic Development Corporation As Chief Growth & Marketing Officer, Hilary Doe leads the state’s efforts to grow Michigan’s population, economy, and reputation as the best place to live, work, raise […]
The evolution of the kit from 2019 and the one from three years later underscores a growing sophistication by GoldenJackal developers. The first generation provided a full suite of capabilities, including: GoldenDealer, a component that delivers malicious executables to air-gapped systems over USB drives GoldenHowl, a backdoor that contains various modules for a mix of […]
Getty Images Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals An investigation into disgraced bone surgeon Mr Yaser Jabbar has been widened to cover five London hospitals, as 721 patients’ care is being reviewed. His work at St John and St Elizabeth Hospital and Cromwell Hospital, both private, is now being […]
The cacophony of coughs you’ll hear in the coming months will be caused by a mix of respiratory bugs. Some are familiar culprits—the common cold, COVID, the flu—and more recently respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). But a growing number of coughs will be caused by the bacterial infection pertussis. Called whooping cough for its most recognizable […]
What if I told you that peaches grown around the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant, site of Japan’s catastrophic nuclear accident, were on sale at Harrods, the luxury department store in London where Ronald Reagan once inquired about buying a baby elephant? It’s true, and how those peaches got there is as much a story of […]
October 9, 2024 4 min read A Century-Old Question Is Still Revealing Answers in Fundamental Math Mathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century ago By Rachel Crowell A boy at a blackboard working on a conceptual representation of math. Justin Lewis/Getty Images After […]
Rachel Feltman: On September 26 Hurricane Helene slammed into the Gulf Coast of Florida as a powerful Category 4 storm. Over the next 48 hours the massive cyclone wrought death and destruction across Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky. In the wake of this multistate rampage, you might be wondering what we […]
Getty Images Demis Hassabis is a chief executive of Google DeepMind British computer scientist Professor Demis Hassabis has won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for “revolutionary” work on proteins, the building blocks of life. Prof Hassabis, 48, co-founded the artificial intelligence (AI) company that became Google DeepMind. Professor John Jumper, 39, who […]
Learning styles are everywhere. It’s the concept that each student has a stable, consistent way they take in, organize, process, and retain information, and that by teaching using a student’s learning style, they will learn more. When someone tells you they are a “visual learner” or they didn’t understand the presentation because they’re an “auditory […]
Microlearning: 9 Engaging Formats For Training Ever felt overwhelmed by lengthy eLearning courses? Or perhaps you’ve struggled to keep employees engaged in traditional training sessions? If so, microlearning might be the solution you’ve been searching for. We live in a fast-paced business world where employees are constantly bombarded with information. Traditional training methods, with their […]
Extreme Climate Survey Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The rapid intensifications of both storms were fueled by the Gulf’s extremely warm water. Developing tropical storms can suck up […]
Shane Gross Shane Gross wins the grand prize – and the ‘Wetlands: The Bigger Picture’ category A snapshot of wriggling toad tadpoles has earned Shane Gross the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Beneath a floating canopy of lily pads in Cedar Lake, Canada, a swarm of western toad tadpoles glided gracefully through the […]
Rwanda is battling its first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease, a deadly illness related to Ebola. The disease does not have any approved vaccines or treatments. As of October 6, the outbreak had infected 56 people and killed 12 of them, according to Rwanda’s Ministry of Health. With support from the Africa Centers for Disease […]
Hurricane Milton became one of the most rapidly intensifying storms on record as it went from barely hurricane strength to a dangerous Category 5 storm in less than a day on a path across the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida. With sustained winds that reached 180 mph on Oct. 7, 2024, and very low pressure, […]
CLIMATEWIRE | As Hurricane Milton churns toward Tampa Bay, scientists say the swiftly intensifying storm could bring historic devastation to Florida’s second-largest metropolitan area. It’s a nightmare scenario that has long haunted Florida officials. For years, scientists and urban planners have warned that rising sea levels and worsening tropical cyclones have made storms a bigger […]
Montana GOP Senate nominee Tim Sheehy said young women are “single-issue voters” on abortion and young voters are “indoctrinated” to support liberal causes, according to audio of the candidate speaking at campaign events last year. The audio reveals additional comments that Sheehy made at campaign stops in 2023 beyond the previously reported ones he made […]
October 8, 2024 3 min read Europe’s Hera Mission Launches to Visit an Asteroid Smacked by NASA Hera will arrive in 2026 at Dimorphos, an asteroid deliberately struck by NASA’s DART spacecraft By Elizabeth Howell & SPACE.com ESA’s Hera mission lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, […]
A wildfire burns in California on 30 July 2024 David McNew/Getty Images A growing number of the planet’s “vital signs” have reached record levels due to climate change and other environmental threats, according to a stark report by a group of prominent researchers. “We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster,” write William […]
if you’re in the market for a laptop but want to spend money wisely, you’re in luck. Amazon’s Prime Day deals run on October 8 and 9, and you’ll find a number of our favorite laptops on sale. Not sure how to pick out which one is best for you? We have a complete guide […]
Health care has become increasingly complex, costly and frustrating for many in the U.S., and it’s one of the biggest issues in the 2024 election. Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump have both vowed to take this on if they win—and to do so through policies ranging from cutting drug costs to […]
October 8, 2024 4 min read Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Breakthroughs in Machine Learning The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was given to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for development of techniques that laid the foundation for revolutionary advances in artificial intelligence By Lee Billings The Nobel Committee for Physics has announced that […]
We live in a world where it is virtually impossible to escape plastics and their associated chemicals. New evidence suggests that in southern California, the average urban resident’s exposure to plasticizers – the substances used to soften plastics and make them more flexible – is “through the roof”. “No matter who you are, or where […]