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NASA Tests Drones to Provide Micrometeorology, Aid in Fire Response – NASA

In Aug. 2024, a team of NASA researchers and partners gathered in Missoula, to test new drone-based technology for localized forecasting, or micrometeorology. Researchers attached wind sensors to a drone, NASA’s Alta X quadcopter, aiming to provide precise and...

Measles Outbreak Hits Town in Texas

A worsening measles outbreak has taken root in Texas, sickening two dozen and hospitalizing nine on the western edge of the state, where childhood vaccination rates have dwindled in recent years.As of Tuesday, 22 children and two adults had...

A bacteria-based Band-Aid helps plants heal their wounds

Got a plant with a boo-boo? Try a plant Band-Aid.A pure form of cellulose produced by bacteria can act as a plant bandage, researchers report, significantly boosting healing and regeneration in plants. The finding, described February 12 in Science...

Historical writings reveal how people weathered the Little Ice Age

“Dear diary, it was freezing outside today…” If someone today wrote that in their journal, it might seem like an innocuous enough line, perhaps never to be carefully considered again. But what if, 500 years from now, scientists used...

Bridging philosophy and AI to explore computing ethics

During a meeting of class 6.C40/24.C40 (Ethics of Computing), Professor Armando Solar-Lezama poses the same impossible question to...

Scientists Detect Shape-Shifting Along Earth’s Solid Inner Core

The inner core at the center of the Earth, a ball of iron and nickel about 1,500 miles wide, may not be perfectly solid.A new study finds evidence that the inner core’s outer boundary has noticeably changed shape over...

Earth’s inner core may have changed shape, say scientists

The inner core of Earth may have changed shape in the past 20 years, according to a group of scientists.The inner core is usually thought to be shaped like a ball, but its edges may actually have deformed by...

A Swearing Expert Discusses the State of Profanity

Cursing is coursing through society. Words once too blue to publicly utter have become increasingly commonplace. “Language is just part of the whole shift to a more casual lifestyle,” said Timothy Jay, a professor emeritus of psychology at the...

A Sweeping Ban on D.E.I. Language Roils the Sciences

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, or NASEM, is an independent, 162-year-old nongovernmental agency tasked with investigating and reporting on a wide range of subjects. In recent years, diversity, equity and inclusion — collectively known as D.E.I....

Readers discuss an unsung scientist, a mutant bacterium named Chonkus, Science News’ new look

Life of the partyMargaret S. Collins, the first Black female entomologist in the United States to earn a Ph.D., overcame racism and sexism to become a field biologist and termite expert, life sciences writer Susan Milius reported in “Termite...
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Chernobyl reactor shield hit by Russian drone, Ukraine says

A Russian drone attack has hit the radiation shelter over the damaged reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,...
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