Pacific Ocean pattern helps explain why wildfires surged in the US but not Australia

The biggest game in soccer is set for Sunday, when Argentina and Spain will meet in the World Cup final, held just outside of New York City. There’s just one problem. Wildfire smoke now threatens the match—and FIFA, the sport’s governing body, doesn’t appear to have any plan in place to protect the health of…

How SLAC is powering America’s AI science transformation  Stanford Report

According to NASA's General Accountability Office's report on the Human Landing System, the Blue Origin Cislunar Transporter will like the Starship Propellant Depot require nobody knows but several flights of a New Glenn upper stage tanker to be filled up. The Cislunar Transporter will then need to fill up the Blue Moon Mark 2 and…

QUICK FACTS Name: Tianchi Lake, or Heaven Lake Location: China-North Korea border Coordinates: 42.0091, 128.0593 Why it’s incredible: It is the deepest lake in China and sits at the top of a giant volcano. Heaven Lake is a crater lake at the top of Mount Changbaishan (also called Changbai Mountain) — a colossal, dormant volcano…

We know that air pollution is bad for us, and if we think about it, it’s probably obvious that it’s particularly bad for our lungs. But many people don’t realize how much it affects many other bodily systems. Pollutants in the air don’t just get into our lung tissue and stay there. The tiniest pollutants…

Snakes have managed to live comfortably without limbs for millions of years, but why they evolved to slither rather than walk has remained an ongoing mystery. Competing theories have each pleaded their case based on ancient environments, arguing over whether the first snakes evolved to navigate underwater, on land, or underground. A new study published…