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What Is El Niño, and What Does It Mean for Weather, Water, and the Global Economy?
This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest on record. Here’s what to expect.
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The Moon's shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it
DURATÓN, Spain—I'll say it: I'm hooked. Standing in the shadow of the Moon is one of the rarest opportunities to directly sense the mechanics of our Solar System, when the dance between three celestial bodies slides into perfect alignment. It's a mathematical miracle whose rarity and grandeur are...
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Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history
During a medieval siege, a trebuchet scored a chance hit on an unlucky defender. A small boulder slammed into his upper back at close to 300 kilometers an hour, smashing bones and crushing him beneath its weight. The man’s skeleton lay beneath the chapel of Scotland’s Stirling Castle, along with ...
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El Niño and Saharan Dust Silence Atlantic Hurricane Season
El Niño coupled with Saharan dust is making this year’s hurricane season a dud. But there’s still potential for dangerous storms.
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There’s a New Link Between Gut Health and Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers found that a metabolite produced by gut bacteria can weaken the barrier that protects the brain and promote changes associated with the cognitive disease.
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Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
An object observed by the James Webb Space Telescope lends credence to a strange explanation for the mysterious red spots in the early universe.
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It’s Never Too Early to Start Planning for the Next Two Solar Eclipses
In 2027 and 2028, there will be two spectacular, long duration solar eclipses. Here’s what you need to know about them.
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Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution
In 1965, a presidential advisory panel $1 warning that pervasive chemical and carbon pollution was harming environmental health and changing the climate. Five years later, President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act. Since that 1970 law and its amendments were passed, combined emissions of a...
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Inside the Experimental Traps Scientists Set for Ghostly Neutrinos
Observatories have been built in mines, deep under the Antarctic ice sheet, and elsewhere in an effort to detect the fleeting particles.
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So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year
It’s been a wild first half of the year in the US power sector, with announcements of gigantic natural gas power plants and some long awaited renewable energy projects coming online. At times of rapid change, forecasting is difficult. So I feel a measure of comfort focusing on something concrete ...
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State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers
A state court in Washington this week ordered Kalshi to stop offering sports gambling and a variety of other wagers on its prediction market. King County Superior Court Judge John McHale issued a preliminary injunction in response to a lawsuit filed against Kalshi by the state of Washington. "The...