From South Africa, a success story for democracy
Back in April 1994, the world watched a remarkable event: South Africa’s first democratic election with universal suffrage. The country...
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If Sea Ice Melts in the Arctic, Do Trees Burn in California?
A new study links sea ice decline with increasing wildfire weather in the Western United States. -- Read more on...
Pollution killed 9 million people worldwide in 2019 alone
Pollution accounted for one in six deaths three years ago, a figure that is unchanged since the last analysis in...
The Almighty Squabble Over Who Gets to Name Microbes
IN DECEMBER 2009, a submarine plunged 2,000 meters into the Gulf of California and emerged clutching a whole new branch...
The small things make a big difference in the science of measurement – Horizon Magazine Blog
As industry works more and more on the nanometre scale (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre), there...
Will NASA Save Europe’s Beleaguered Mars Rover?
Europe’s long-awaited ExoMars rover—the first ever for the continent—seems to be cursed. Parachute problems scuppered its initially planned launch in...
Starliner: Boeing spacecraft will launch to the International Space Station
At the moment, only SpaceX is able to launch astronauts to the International Space Station from US soil, but Boeing...
Charting a safe course through a highly uncertain environment
An autonomous spacecraft exploring the far-flung regions of the universe descends through the atmosphere of a remote exoplanet. The vehicle,...
What the U.S. Can Learn from Brazil’s Successful COVID Vaccination Campaign
During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, media outlets, health experts and scholars have explained the COVID-19 vaccine divide in...
Solar storms: Why the next one might hit Earth without warning
A big solar storm could fry the internet, but at least space weather forecasts would give us a day or...
Scientists see signs of traumatic brain injury in headbutting muskox
Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai saw for the first time hallmarks of concussions and other...
Climate Change Caused $4 Billion of Typhoon’s Damage
CLIMATEWIRE | Scientists have found the fingerprint of global warming on Typhoon Hagibis, a monster cyclone that swept through Japan...
Net zero plans will see UK produce more electricity than it needs by 2030
New offshore wind farms built as part of the UK’s Net Zero Strategy are expected to turn the country into...
New material from Ireland can ‘capture toxic pollutants from air’
Researchers at University of Limerick, Ireland have developed a new material that has the ability to capture toxic chemicals from...
Origin of Life Theory Involving RNA–Protein Hybrid Gets New Support
Chemists say they have solved a crucial problem in a theory of life’s beginnings, by demonstrating that RNA molecules can...
AI solves complex physics problems by looking for signs of symmetry
Complicated physics problems are sometimes simpler than they appear, so physicists have made a machine learning model to search for...
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