SCIENCE
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Carnivorous ‘Bone Collector’ Caterpillars Wear Corpses as Camouflage
Carnivorous ‘Bone Collector’ Caterpillars Wear Corpses as Camouflage Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges…
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Trump Cuts Threaten Key NOAA Work to Improve Weather Forecasts and Monitor Toxic Algal Blooms
CLIMATEWIRE | Researchers in Oklahoma are hard at work on a new lifesaving weather forecasting system. In Michigan, they’re keeping…
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Researchers Discover New Color That’s Impossible to See without Lasering Your Retinas
This Impossible New Color Is So Rare That Only Five People Have Seen It Researchers discover a new color outside…
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Offshore Wind Power Poses Only Limited Risk to Whales, Government Watchdog Report Finds
CLIMATEWIRE | Two years ago, Republican lawmakers asked Congress’ watchdog to scrutinize offshore wind’s impact on commercial fishing, marine navigation…
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This Robot Copies Life—By Decomposing
Picture a robot. What do you see? A rugged, steel-clad machine built to transcend living beings’ organic fragility? Unfortunately, this…
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Firing the Scientists Who Make Working Safe Is Foolish
Black lung is a cruel disease. Incurable, it scars and hardens lungs, makes breathing hurt and leads to tuberculosis, heart…
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Dennis Gaitsgory Wins Breakthrough Prize for Solving Part of Math’s Grand Unified Theory
The Langlands program has been described by mathematician Edward Frankel as the “grand unified theory of mathematics.” Conceived by Robert…
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The Uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, Targeted by Tariffs, Are a Biological Wonderland
The Heard and McDonald Islands Are a Pristine Biological Wonderland Trump’s tariffs put a spotlight on the uninhabited Heard and…
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Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Climate Change
CLIMATEWIRE | Top Wall Street institutions are preparing for a severe future of global warming that blows past the temperature…
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Amid Trump Cuts, Climate Researchers Wait for the Ax to Fall
Climate Researchers Wait for the Ax to Fall Climate experts whose research is funded by federal grants hide, whisper and…
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