Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world.
These include critical raw materials – resources such as lithium and rare earth elements (REEs) that are essential for green technologies, but whose production and…
An iceberg that calved from the Antarctic ice sheet in 1986 is dramatically turning blue as it rapidly heads towards total annihilation.
Earth satellites that have been monitoring iceberg A-23A over decades show that, in a very short space of time, the massive, crumbling berg went from snowy…
New York City is one of the noisiest cities in the world. With a population of eight and a half million people, the city is a…
Adolescents are known for risky behavior, with teenagers in the US more likely than younger children to die from injury. But what’s responsible for this uptick in risk-taking around puberty?
Our new observations of physical risk-taking in chimpanzees suggests that the rise in risk-taking in…
Margaret Thatcher, who was known for sleeping only four hours a night, is often credited with saying “Sleep is for wimps!” But sleep is actually work. Putting down the phone, setting aside personal or political worries—these require discipline. True relaxation calls for training.
Sleep…
The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal.
Archaeologist Otto Geist came across the bones – two epiphyseal plates from a mammalian spine – on an expedition in 1951 through the Alaskan interior,…
A pigment in red hair may have a secret superpower: It can turn a toxic threat into a splash of color.
Scientists studying the orange-to-red melanin in bird feathers have found that its production can help prevent cellular damage.
The pigment is called pheomelanin, and its synthesis requires…
“This project will create jobs, spur local innovation, and advance American leadership in energy technology,” Urvi Parekh, head of global energy at Meta, said in a statement. “By investing in baseload nuclear energy, we’re helping build a resilient and sustainable future for our…
