The Beautiful Chemistry Project re-creates the era’s cosmetics to find the science behind them Art historian Erin Griffey is a bit of a beauty maven. “I’m one of those people who reads the backs of beauty products,” she says. That’s why, while working on a book about beauty culture inContinue Reading
Last-mile delivery by a small drone takes much less energy per package than delivery by diesel truck Drones that fly packages straight to people’s doors could be an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional modes of transportation. A study comparing the environmental impact of various ‘last-mile’ delivery methods — which takeContinue Reading
Nongovernment satellites are vulnerable to attack, and calling them critical infrastructure would make it easier for the U.S. to fight back For five days in 2021, gas on the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. stopped flowing. People began to panic-buy at the pumps and cancel trips. A Russian criminal groupContinue Reading
Monkeypox testing has been limited in the U.S. More than 1,050 monkeypox cases have been detected in the U.S. as of Wednesday (July 13), but based on the availability of diagnostic tests in the country, this may be a significant undercount, some experts say. So far this year, about 10,800Continue Reading
Grab a front-row seat, it’s rush hour for belugas. Is the summer heat getting you down? Cool off with a virtual dip into icy Arctic waters and watch as tens of thousands of beluga whales frolic in the frigid sea. Starting Friday (July 15), the research vessel Delphi will broadcastContinue Reading
‘Ice stupas’ emerged in 2014 as a way to cope with shrinking glaciers in a warming world There’s a better way to build a glacier. During winter in India’s mountainous Ladakh region, some farmers use pipes and sprinklers to construct building-sized cones of ice. These towering, humanmade glaciers, called iceContinue Reading
Divers also found bronze and marble statues, including of horses. The 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck that carried the Antikythera Mechanism — a precise mechanical model of the sun, moon and planets — is giving up new treasures, including a marble head thought to depict the Greek and Roman demigod Hercules.Continue Reading
The Kangaroo Island dunnart was one species seen to reemerge after Australian bushfires Few marsupials have gone from miraculous survival to the brink of extinction as quickly as the Kangaroo Island dunnart. In 2019 and 2020, devastating fires burned nearly 10 million hectares of southeastern Australia. The flames threatened hundredsContinue Reading
Sexism in biology has left females misunderstood To Charles Darwin, nature had a certain order. And in that order, males always came out on top. They were the leaders, the innovators, the wooers and the doers. “The males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females,” Darwin wroteContinue Reading
The amphibians control their descents without the use of any webbed limbs In one of the tallest trees on Earth, a tan, mottled salamander ventures out on a fern growing high up on the trunk. Reaching the edge, the amphibian leaps, like a skydiver exiting a plane. The salamander’s confidence,Continue Reading
