The postcard-perfect sandy beaches and nostalgic piers of England’s beautiful coastal towns hide a darker truth. Young people in these areas are having a mental health crisis at rates much higher than their peers in the inland areas, even though they look like they are having a great time on vacation. New research shows that ...
Holloman Lake used to be an unlikely oasis in the dry Chihuahuan Desert of New Mexico. It was a shimmering mirage for migratory birds, campers, and wildlife. But underneath its calm surface is a nightmare that can’t be seen: the highest levels of “forever chemicals” ever found in a natural ecosystem. What started out as ...
Pretty much every politician seems to be avoiding taking real action on climate change, because they think no one cares about net zero anymore. That’s not what the numbers tell us, though. While political figures are growing more skeptical of these policies, the British public is still largely supportive of climate action policies, even when ...
A deadly mix of weather systems caused chaos in Texas over the Fourth of July weekend. Heavy rains of more than 300 mm (12 inches) in just a few hours turned the state’s Hill Country into a deadly waterway. The floods, which were made worse by leftover effects of Tropical Storm Barry and unstable weather, ...
A gull-sized flying reptile has emerged from fossil-rich layers of Arizona’s Petrified Forest, revealing the earliest known pterosaur in North America. Named Eotephradactylus mcintireae, this delicate creature lived 209 million years ago and shared its ecosystem with turtles, amphibians, and armored reptiles, capturing a moment of evolutionary transition before the end-Triassic extinction. A Fossil Treasure ...
There is a hidden crisis in the beautiful green fields of the British countryside. Every year, millions of tons of sewage sludge, now called “biosolids,” are spread on farms. These sludge is full of toxic chemicals, microplastics, and drugs. Even though there is more and more proof of pollution, the UK’s rules about spreading sludge ...
The extraordinary features of a rapidly moving celestial object are scintillating astronomers’ interest. Upon initial discovery, A11pl3Z was given a name but recently NASA has confirmed it as 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object out of four comets or asteroids discovered. Unlike the comets or asteroids which are bound to the sun’s asteroid belt and viewable ...
A new study published in Scientific Reports uncovers a tragic feeding mistake preserved in stone: Jurassic fish of the genus Tharsis choked to death while attempting to swallow squid-like cephalopods called belemnites. The fossils, found in Germany’s Solnhofen Limestone, offer rare insight into predator-prey dynamics and ecological conditions 150 million years ago. Fossils from a ...
This summer, the latest installment of the Jurassic World franchise, titled Rebirth, will showcase familiar patterns from the franchise while introducing towering titanosaurs and mutant dinosaurs as well as the beloved T. rex. However, bringing such creatures to life on screen in a tangible manner is Dr. Steve Brusatte’s work. Paleontologist Brusatte fixes the monsters ...
Jupiter-sized exoplanets which emerge as a proxy for accelerating self-sabotage by instigating tremendous outbursts from their parent stars seem as violations to the conventional structure of planetary systems; astronomers have identified such a diabolic planet, HIP 67522 b. Located within its parent star’s magnetic field, HIP 67522 b’s orbital position subjects it to flare beams ...
