The Milky Way is our home galaxy, but how well do we actually know it? As part of a NASA-funded project, a team led by Villanova University researchers has obtained a never-before-seen view of the central engine at the heart of our galaxy.The new map of this c... More »
Cannabis vape pens can contain unsafe levels of heavy metalsRichard Vogel/AP/ Alamy
Cannabis vape liquids contain toxic heavy metals that do not come from the device itself. In both legal and illegal products, the concentration of nano-sized metal particles ex... More »
Archaeologists in France have excavated a Neolithic site containing 63 burials and hundreds of structures and artifacts from a human occupation spanning roughly 4,000 years.The site in Clermont-Ferrand, a city in the Auvergne region of central France, was disc... More »
Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to stop the construction of a copper mine in Arizona on land sacred to the San Carlos Apache Tribe as well as other Indigenous nations. Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, also known as Oak Flat, sits atop the ... More »
Since its inception, this murky term has straddled the dual role of disciplining and inspiring.When Joel Bervell thought about professionalism as an undergrad, he thought of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Specifically, he thought about how residents on the show were expect... More »
Starting tonight, spring will have officially sprung in the Northern Hemisphere.Today (March 19) is the March equinox, an annual astronomical event that marks the change of seasons across the globe. In the Northern Hemisphere, the March equinox signals the end... More »
An Indonesian fishing village has been inundated with tonnes of rubbish after recent heavy rains resulted in stronger tides.Teluk, in the Indonesian province of Banten on the western edge of Java island, has one of the country’s dirtiest beaches. But the arriv... More »
New research found that fewer than 10 percent of countries and territories met World Health Organization guidelines for particulate matter pollution last year.Only 10 countries and territories out of 134 achieved the World Health Organization’s standards for a... More »
A missing element from much of the debate about whether Australia should embrace nuclear power is that – unless the Labor rank-and-file have an extraordinary change of heart – the issue is already dead on arrival.John Howard and Scott Morrison knew the score o... More »
A £58bn plan to rewire Great Britain’s electricity grid to connect up new windfarms off the coast of Scotland is expected to trigger tensions with communities along the route.National Grid’s electricity system operator (ESO) has mapped out power “motorways” ac... More »
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight (March 18).A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off tonight from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base at 10:28 p.m. EDT (7:28 p.m. local California time;... More »
It’s Women’s History Month AND we’re just two short weeks from Citizen Science Month. And that’s why we have Rosie the Robot urging everyone to roll up their sleeves and do their part by signing up for the One Million Acts of Science Challenge! If we all work ... More »