Hurricane Dorian seen from the MODIS imager on Terra, August 31, 2019. NASA.
We seem to now live in an age where people are comfortable ignoring experts, especially those in the sciences.
You may have noticed that Hurricane Dorian didn't hit Alabama. Depending on the circles in which you run, you might think it was a "close call" or a completely mistaken statement that Alabama was ever in any real danger from the hurricane. However, what is clear is that when experts in meteorology -- the ...read more
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Cancer therapies often fail to work when tested in clinical trials. As a result, a startling 97 percent of drugs designed for specific cancer treatments do not receive approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Now researchers say they may have figured out part of the reason why.
In a new study out Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, scientists report many cancer drugs don't work the way their designers assumed the ...read more
Dead seaweed chokes beaches across the Caribbean every year. (Credit: Playa del Carmen/Shutterstock)
(Inside Science) -- In the summer of 2018, thousands of tons of a prolific seaweed called sargassum invaded the pristine beaches of the Caribbean. In Mexico, the turquoise waters and clear, smooth sand of the touristy Mayan Riviera turned into a brown mess. The sight of sargassum -- a type of brown algae -- and its smell scared tourists away, and local ecosystems started to suffer greatly. ...read more
The MeerKAT telescope is superimposed on a radio image of the Milky Way's center. Radio bubbles extend from between the two nearest antennas to the upper right corner, with filaments running parallel to the bubbles. (Credit: SARAO/MeerKAT)
The Milky Way is blowing bubbles. Two giant radio bubbles,
extending out from the galaxy for over 1,400 light years, were just discovered
in X-ray data. Astronomers think the bubbles started forming a few million
years ago due to some type of cataclysmic ...read more
The watery exoplanet K2-18 b is surrounded by water vapor in this artist's illustration. (Credit: Alex Boersma)
Astronomers have finally uncovered water vapor in the atmosphere
of a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of its star. The
find means that liquid water could also exist on the rocky world's surface,
potentially even forming a global
ocean.
The discovery, made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, serves as the
first detection of water vapor in the atmosphere ...read more
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