Category: Science
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Your guide to the 2024 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
[ad_1] This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. In 2019, Makanalani Gomes stood on the slopes of Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain in Hawaiʻi, face-to-face with Honolulu riot police. For decades, Native Hawaiians like Gomes…
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8 years into America’s e-scooter experiment, what have we learned?
[ad_1] When the sharing economy took off in the 2010s and upended entire industries, the firmest proponents of the model heralded it as an economic revolution that would help slash emissions. Of all the ideas that emerged and dissolved over the years, shareable electric scooters seemed to possess the most promise for climate. Almost anyone…
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Johnson signals he won’t put Senate supplemental on the floor despite increased pressure
[ad_1] House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Sunday did not indicate that he would put the Senate-passed supplemental package on foreign aid on the floor this week, despite mounting pressure from Democrats and some GOP lawmakers to do so after Iran’s retaliatory strike against Israel. During an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Johnson…
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Police say driver fatally shot after fleeing, then crashing into Tesla: ‘Mother of all booms’
[ad_1] A 36-year-old man was fatally shot Saturday night after fleeing from Pasadena police officers and crashing into a resident’s parked Tesla, police say. Around 8:40 p.m., the department said officers discovered a parked white pickup truck facing the wrong direction on a one-way street on Hudson Avenue in Pasadena, not far from the California…
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Improving microbial phylogeny with citizen science within a mass-market video game – Nature Biotechnology
[ad_1] Task and data The data featured in this article come from a set of 953,000 rRNA fragments sequenced from stool samples submitted by participants in the AGP25, powered by TMI (https://microsetta.ucsd.edu/). The fragments are 150 nucleotides long and come from the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene. In the BLS mini game (Fig.…
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Digging up new species of Australia and New Guinea’s giant fossil kangaroos
[ad_1] An artist’s impression of the newly described fossil species Protemnodon viator and its relative Protemnodon anak, compared at scale to the living red kangaroo and eastern grey kangaroo. Credit: Flinders University Paleontologists from Flinders University have described three unusual new species of giant fossil kangaroo from Australia and New Guinea, finding them more diverse…
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Super-muscular 374-pound kangaroos once thumped around Australia and New Guinea
[ad_1] Earth used to be absolutely crawling with more megafauna. The fossil record is full of enormous birds like New Zealand’s Heracles inexpectatus, giant lemurs from Madagascar, large marine reptiles that would put today’s sea snakes to shame. Paleontologists have now found evidence of three unusual new species of giant fossil kangaroo in present day…
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O.J. Simpson will be cremated; estate executor says ‘hard no’ to controversial ex-athlete’s brain being studied for CTE
[ad_1] A lawyer who represented O.J. Simpson, who died from cancer last week at 76, said Sunday that the former NFL star’s body will be cremated in the coming days, and there are no plans to have his brain donated to science. “On at least one occasion, someone has called saying he’s a CTE guy…
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Tandem heat waves, storm surges increasingly batter coasts: Study
[ad_1] Deadly flash floods devastated Libya’s coastal city of Derna in September 2023. Coastal communities need to prepare for simultaneous extreme weather events as heat waves increasingly overlap with surges in sea levels due to climate change, a study published on Thursday warned. Extreme heat and sea levels are typically monitored and studied individually but…
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Two men shove boulders off ancient rock formation in Nevada, wrecking it, video shows
[ad_1] A video posted to social media shows two men rolling boulders over a cliff at an ancient rock formation in Nevada, National Park Service rangers reported. “Don’t fall, daddy!” a girl screams in the video, posted by KVVU, as the men wrestle rocks to the dropoff at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The boulders…