Ten deadliest quakes of the 21st century
The massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 is the fifth-deadliest this century......»»
NASA"s Chandra rewinds story of great eruption of the 1840s
Using snapshots taken over 20 years with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have learned important new details about an eruption from Eta Carinae witnessed on Earth in the mid-19th century......»»
South American bat rediscovered after a century
The Strange Big-eared Brown Bat, Histiotus alienus, was first described by science in 1916, by the British zoologist Oldfield Thomas. The description of the species was based on a single specimen captured in Joinville, Paraná, in southern Brazil......»»
Q&A: Study reveals long-distance levers behind US Southwest drought, and a dry future
The U.S. Southwest has been suffering a drought that began at the close of the 20th century—now officially known as a megadrought, due to its intensity and longevity. Climate scientist Richard Seager has been studying it since the start. Much of hi.....»»
Examining how weather patterns will change in the future
In a warming Pacific Northwest, summers are getting hotter and winters less cold, but the atmospheric patterns that influence the weather aren't necessarily expected to become stronger or more frequent by the end of the century, according to a new Po.....»»
New Klipsch tabletop wireless speakers are a more affordable, capable take on mid-century modern
Klipsch's new The One and The Three Plus tabletop wireless speakers evolve the company's mid-century modern style, with better support for digital audio......»»
Biologists in slow and steady race to help North America"s largest and rarest tortoise species
While the average lifespan of North America's largest and most rare tortoise species is unknown, biologists have said it could span upward of a century......»»
Accelerated warming has pushed North America"s deepest lake across important ecological thresholds
A team of researchers from Queen's University and Environment and Climate Change Canada have shown that accelerated 21st-century warming has triggered a striking shift in algal composition in the Great Slave Lake, North America's deepest lake, and on.....»»
Q&A: What Libya"s floods, Morocco"s earthquake can teach us about resilient infrastructure
On the night of September 8, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit Morocco in the Atlas Mountains near the historic town of Marrakesh. The tremor, the biggest to strike the country in over a century, shattered hundreds of buildings and killed nearly 3,000 p.....»»
Archaeologists find 500-year-old board game carved in ruins of Polish castle
Nine-man morris, or mill, is a two-person strategy game with ancient origins. Enlarge / Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an early 16th-century Polish castle discovered a carved strategy board game called Mill. (credit: Toma.....»»
RNA has been recovered from an extinct species for the first time
A new study shows the isolation and sequencing of more than a century-old RNA molecules from a Tasmanian tiger specimen preserved at room temperature in a museum collection. This resulted in the reconstruction of skin and skeletal muscle transcriptom.....»»
Drug delivery platform leverages air-filled protein nanostructures and uses sound for targeting
Chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is one of the major medical success stories of the 20th century, but it's far from perfect. Anyone who has been through chemotherapy or who has had a friend or loved one go through it will be familiar with its m.....»»
Is Payday 3 cross-platform?
Are you ready to get your crew together to pull off the heist of the century in PayDay 3? Before you do, check to see if it supports crossplay on all platforms......»»
A water carrier just won the hardest cycling race on the planet
The cycling drama came to a head on top of the most demanding mountain in Europe. Enlarge / Cyclist Sepp Kuss, center, on the podium of the 21st stage of the Vuelta a España with Jonas Vingegaard, left, and Primoz Roglic, right......»»
Column: ‘Historic" UAW strike, indeed — Jeep workers strike in Toledo is somehow a first
After more than a century of automaking and 90 years of UAW representation, the "stand-up strike" appears to be Toledo Jeep's first walkout as part of a national contract dispute......»»
A Global Surge in Cholera Outbreaks May Be Fueled by Climate Change
One of the world's deadliest diseases is rising again as extreme weather creates a perfect breeding ground for the bacteria......»»
Why the Earth quakes: A closer look at what"s going on under the ground
Earthquakes, large and small, happen every single day along zones that wrap around the world like seams on a baseball. Most don't bother anybody, so they don't make the news. But every now and then a catastrophic earthquake hits people somewhere in t.....»»
A microwave shield yields ultracold dipolar molecules
Almost a century ago, physicists Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein predicted a theoretical state of matter in which individual particles would, at extremely cold temperatures and low densities, condense into an indistinguishable whole. These so.....»»
Art, science merge in study of 19th-century landscape paintings" ecological integrity
An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental science......»»
Five ways that college campuses benefit from diversity, equity and inclusion programs
For more than half a century, colleges and universities have relied on dedicated programs to attract students of color and support them. Today, those programs—known as diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs—are under attack......»»
Urban parks built on former waste incineration sites could be lead hotspots, study finds
For much of the last century, many cities across the United States and Canada burned their trash and waste in municipal incinerators. Most of these facilities were closed by the early 1970s due to concerns about the pollution they added to the air, b.....»»