science / science - 6 years ago
A suicide bomber targeted a gathering of hundreds of Muslim religious scholars in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, killing at least 50 people, Afghan officials said.
science / science - 6 years ago
No, it's not 2018
science / science - 6 years ago
While the Woolsey Fire in southern California, is largely contained (96% as of Monday night) some of the terrifying images from the last several weeks are continuing to trickle out, including the above video of an absolutely incredible rescue. The footage is harrowing, taken from a helmet cam, as r...
science / science - 6 years ago
Mexico, Nov. 20 (Notimex).- With his project on the identification of archetypes as tools for the design of public space, Omar Alberto Herrera García, a student at the Autonomous University of Querétaro (UAQ, for its acronym in Spanish), will conduct a research stay in the International City of the...
science / science - 6 years ago
Could the human race be wiped out?
science / science - 6 years ago
Its office has all the trappings: industrial-chic design, a Blue Bottle Coffee down the block, and a sign reading “Revolution Workspace” above the front desk. Twitter Inc. and Uber are nearby. By providing Ph.D.s with seed funding and business mentors, IndieBio wants to churn out successful life-s...
science / science - 6 years ago
Hundreds of "manual scavengers" die each year cleaning out sewers in cities across India but a machine unveiled for Monday's World Toilet Day could help to end that tragic record. Thousands of mostly low-caste Indians are employed in one of the world's dirtiest jobs unclogging human waste from unde...
science / science - 6 years ago
Peter Ward’s arguments about the source of climate change have been denounced by scientists. That hasn’t stopped him from presenting his ideas at prominent conferences.
science / science - 6 years ago
Three of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy activists and six others went on trial Monday for spearheading the tumultuous “Occupy Central” demonstrations in 2014.
science / science - 6 years ago
This is a& re-post from the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy by Sarah Finnie Robinson When do 97% of people agree on anything, even ice cream? In scientific circles, consensus is a rare trophy, held to famously exacting standards. When a scientific consensus is finally reached &md...
science / science - 6 years ago
This battle goes beyond the merits of CRISPR and zinc-finger nuclease gene-editing approaches.
science / science - 6 years ago
Story of the Week... Toon of the Week... SkS in the News... Photo of the Week... SkS Spotlights... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review...& Story of the Week... Scientists acknowledge key errors in study of how fast the oceans are warming A major study claimed the oceans...
science / science - 6 years ago
At the beginning of the year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made changes to its website pages on fracking. A watchdog group known as the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative tracked those changes across the EPA’s site and just released a report documenting the group’s findings. Th...
science / science - 6 years ago
NASA was forced to plan for the inevitable death of the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope a few weeks ago. The spacecraft, which had already discovered literally thousands of new planets, ran out of fuel and couldn't continue its science observations. Now, NASA has finally said goodnight...
science / science - 6 years ago
It comes as part of a promise to "restore inclusion and diversity" in the chamber