A crane removes concrete stairs as rescuers pause at the remains of a quake-stricken building at Colonia Roma in Mexico City A new earthquake sowed panic in Mexico City on Saturday, forcing a brief pause in rescue operations to free survivors from the more powerful tremor this week that devastated […]
An artist’s rendering of a hyperloop on a track leading to downtown Toronto. A pitch for a hyperloop linking Toronto and Montreal via Ottawa is among 10 winners of a global challenge. Credit: transpodhyperloop.com In 2012, SpaceX founder Elon Musk unveiled his idea for what he called the “fifth mode […]
Asian carp jump from the water at the mouth of the Wabash River in Ohio. (Credit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Todd Davis) For years, people have been freaking out that Asian carp are about to invade the Great Lakes. That concern seemed more real than ever this summer after an […]
Hurricane Irma near Cuba on September 8, 2017. NOAA/CIRA What makes a hurricane tick? Whether it’s a disheveled tropical depression or a picture-perfect category five swirling across the ocean like a buzzsaw, every tropical cyclone that forms on Earth has the same basic structure. These powerful storms are just as fragile as they are […]
A no-till field. Credit: Indiana University A new IUPUI study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture answers a long-debated agricultural question: whether no-tillage alone is sufficient to prevent water pollution from nitrate. The answer is no. Researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences in the School of Science at […]
Mount Agung volcano is seen at the sunrise in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. Indonesia officials have more than doubled the zise of no go zone around the mount Agung volcano o the tourist island of Bali and raised its alert level for the second time in less than […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The good news: Recognizing the incredible value of forests in providing habitat, storing carbon dioxide, purifying water and more, people around the world are working to restore forests destroyed in the past by human activities such as logging and farming. The bad news: In some places, […]
Research from The Ohio State University shows that community involvement in preserving forested land can be successful Credit: Brent Sohngen, Ohio State When the government gives citizens a personal stake in forested land, trees don’t disappear as quickly and environmental harm slows down. A new study from The Ohio State […]
Credit: New York University Somewhere on Lake Erie, leaning over the rail of a research vessel in a November snowstorm and trying not to be sick, John Burt decided he’d rather work in warmer waters. “I realized I had a real fondness for the tropics,” the marine biologist recalls, laughing […]
Barn owls rely on their hearing to hunt GETTY IMAGES Barn owls keep their acute sense of hearing into old age, scientists have discovered. Previously, starlings have been found to have this ability, suggesting birds are protected from age-related hearing loss. Understanding more about the “ageless ears” of barn owls […]