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Pet euthanasia rates are at a 3-year high, but experts say there are ways to help besides adoption

Tue, 09/12/2023 - 15:19

A volunteer petting a dog at an animal shelter. — Volunteering is one way you can help pets in animal shelters without having to adopt.
Camille Tokerud / Getty Images

Science, science-freelance, Pets, Euthanasia

How hydrogen bombs work and why they were created after WWII despite being more powerful than atomic bombs

Sun, 08/27/2023 - 08:08

White mushroom cloud of the first hydrogen bomb test over the Marshall Islands. — The first hydrogen bomb test, as part of Operation Ivy, detonated over the Marshall Islands in 1952.
Historical / Contributor / Getty Images

Science, hydrogen-bomb, nuclear-weapons, nuclear-war, atomic-bomb, Oppenhemier, science-freelance

Japan released treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the ocean. Experts say it's safe, but one would avoid the fish.

Thu, 08/24/2023 - 16:59

Fukushima — A Tokyo Electric Power Co. employee wearing a protective suit and mask near storage water tanks.
REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama/Pool

Science, Fukushima, radioactivity, pacific, Ocean, Fishing, Japan

Humans have pumped so much groundwater from the Earth that it's actually caused the planet's axis to shift, a new study found

Fri, 08/11/2023 - 18:45

Earth from space. — We're moving so much water from under the continents to the oceans that it's affecting our axial tilt, a new study found.
DrPixel / Getty Images

Science, Earth, axis, groundwater, Drinking Water, Sea Level Rise, North Pole

How atomic bombs work and why Manhattan Project scientists designed two types of bombs during WWII

Wed, 08/09/2023 - 10:51

Cillian Murphy in a scene from — Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer."
Universal Pictures

Science, Military & Defense, Atomic Bomb, Oppenhemier, Nuclear Test, Nuclear Weapons, nuclear fission

Mountains are collapsing: A Swiss mountain peak fell apart, sending 3.5 million cubic feet of rock into the valley below. Scientists warn climate change could make more mountains crumble.

Sat, 08/05/2023 - 07:32

A view of the partially collapsed Fluchthorn mountain. — The grey middle peak shown here of Mt. Fluchthorn partially collapsed earlier this year.
Sean Gallup / Staff / Getty Images

Science, science-freelance, Climate Change, Mountains, permafrost, Mudslides

Jaden Smith says he took magic mushrooms as a young adult. Brain experts who study psychedelics warn that wasn't a good idea.

Sat, 07/29/2023 - 08:44

Jaden Smith — Jaden Smith said his mother introduced him to magic mushrooms.
Rich Fury/

Science, science-freelance, psilocybin, magic mushrooms, Jaden Smith, Neuroscience, brain science

I quit my real estate job in Indiana and moved to Florida to hunt pythons. Here's what my typical day looks like now.

Sun, 07/23/2023 - 09:41

Amy Siewe holding a python. — Amy Siewe hunts invasive Burmese pythons in Florida.
Amy Siewe

Science, python, Florida, Burmese Python, Invasive Species, Hunting, science-freelance

The world's top alien hunters explain why a Harvard physicist's discovery of 'alien' tech is likely a false alarm

Sat, 07/22/2023 - 09:59

Avi Loeb Stephen Hawking 2016.JPG — Physicist Avi Loeb, right, on stage with physicist Stephen Hawking and others in New York in 2016.
Lucas Jackson/Reuters

Science, science-freelance, Aliens, Meteors, SETI

A scientist scraped a black dot on his forehead and filmed it under a microscope, revealing dozens of crawling face mites

Sun, 05/14/2023 - 08:19

Illustration of a face mite. — Scientists still aren't sure why humans play host to these tiny creatures.
Nanoclustering/Science photo library/Getty Images

Science, Microscopy, Animal Science, Skin, science-freelance

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