It seems like a lot of folks have a bone to pick with Rep. Joe Manchin [D-WV] who has just this week single-handedly “torpedoed” the Build Back Better bill. The BBB could have been the “the most significant climate legislation … Continue reading
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This post has been updated. On Wednesday morning, the FDA issued the first emergency use authorization for a COVID treatment pill. In a phase III trial, Pfizer’s Pavloxvid was 89 percent effective at stopping high-risk COVID patients from becoming severely … Continue reading
When the US, Europe, and Canada first unveiled the plans for the James Webb Space Telescope in 1997, it sounded like a pitch from an overambitious science student. The contraption would have to schlep a 26-foot-wide mirror across the solar … Continue reading
Life as we know it shouldn’t be able to survive in Venus’s swirling atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. Its clouds are so acidic, in fact, that they don’t even register on the regular pH scale. But a new … Continue reading
This story originally featured on Nexus Media News, a nonprofit climate change news service. On a sweltering morning in July of 2021, thousands of dead fish washed onto the northeastern shores of Pokegama Lake, 60 miles north of Minneapolis. Deb … Continue reading
Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a professor of computational media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This story was originally featured on The Conversation. Before Pong there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. The progenitor of today’s US$175 billion industry debuted … Continue reading
More than half of the continental US is currently experiencing some level of drought, and about a quarter is in severe drought or worse. In recent years, the western and southwestern US has been in a seemingly continual state of … Continue reading
The current theory posits that synesthetes’ brains have extra connections. When you see a word, your retina and optic nerve send that information to the visual cortex, which creates the image you see. Then your noggin’s face- and color-recognition unit, … Continue reading
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Cookie Settings Many products featured on this site were editorially chosen. Popular Science may receive financial compensation for products purchased through this site. Copyright © 2020 Popular Science. A Bonnier Corporation Company. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in … Continue reading