Automation Is Coming for the Oil Jobs, Too
When pundits, politicians, or advocates have talked about the need to reduce fossil fuel production to combat climate change, one of the most common rejoinders has been…
Category: Science
A pair of Australian siblings are some of the rarest humans ever documented, according to their doctors. They say the brother and sister are semi-identical twins, sharing… Read More
Some lawmakers in Texas are apparently very unworried about the growing number of epidemics across the country involving diseases once nearly eradicated by vaccines, including a five-county… Read More
Half a century after Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton made us fear disease as much as dinosaurs and robots, the classic sci-fi novel The Andromeda Strain is… Read More
Moms and dads shouldn’t expect their sleep habits to bounce back to the way they were before kids for at least the first six years of their… Read More
Physicists Propose Hunting for Signs of Dark Matter in Ancient Minerals
Physicists typically build large, complex experiments to hunt for dark matter particles coming from outer space, but what if clues to its existence have been hiding inside…
An Arizona crematorium was contaminated with radiation after the cremation of a patient who’d received radiopharmaceutical treatment, according to a new case study. Read More
If you read the news on Monday, you may have heard people freaking out about how climate change is finally coming for the clouds. A study released… Read More
Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe touched down successfully on the Ryugu asteroid late last week, blasting its surface and–hopefully–collecting samples. A new image released by JAXA shows a distinctive… Read More
One of the strangest side-effects of a tick bite–a new allergy to red meat–could be even easier to get than previously thought. New research out this weekend… Read More