Ongoing outbreaks of avian influenza have decimated poultry flocks and wild birds across the United States and worldwide. The virus, known as H5N1, is also increasingly adapting to mammals and has been found
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Amid the roilings of the Milky Way, immense pockets of gas coalesce into clouds where stars are born. In this process, there is
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. In the past week, Earth’s record for the hottest day was broken twice. Sunday, July 21, was declared Earth’s hottest day
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As delegates arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee earlier this week to officially nominate former president Donald
Every time the Olympics come around, it seems there’s a different disease stalking the event. At Rio 2016 it was Zika. At the postponed Tokyo games it was Covid. And at the 2024
At a recent rally, Donald Trump stated that electric planes would be a bad idea because you couldn’t fly if it was cloudy. I guess “electric” equates to “solar energy” in the former
Bound in a book, Anthony Fauci is finally unbound. For 54 years, the nation’s leading pandemic expert stuck to science and public health policy in his public statements, because he had to. As
On the banks of Nagdaha, a polluted and lotus-infested lake in Nepal, Soni Pradhanang is putting trash back into the water—on purpose. She carefully assembles a platform of styrofoam and bamboo mats, then
Off the southwest tip of Iceland, you’ll find what’s often called a “marginal” body of water. This part of the Atlantic, the Irminger Sea, is one of the stormiest places in the northern
This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. For more than 10 years, Andrew Sweetman and his colleagues have been studying the ocean floor and its ecosystems, particularly
