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“I didn’t sign up to try to measure a new record or anything”, said Matt Carnicle, a volunteer for the NASA-sponsored Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS, project. Carnicle measured a whopping 29.06 inches of rainfall on June 18th, 2026, breaking an all-time 24-hour record for the state of Louisiana of 22.00…
In most materials, the way heat is absorbed and the way it is emitted are inseparable. If a surface absorbs heat efficiently from a particular direction or wavelength, it also emits heat the same way. This long established principle, known as reciprocity, has made it difficult for scientists to independently control how thermal energy enters…
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NCSE members had the opportunity to hear from Rebecca Lindsey, managing director of Climate.us — a private, nonprofit successor to the shuttered Climate.gov. Lindsey discussed the importance of preserving public access to trusted climate science data and shared insights into the development of Climate.us. She was interviewed by NCSE Executive Director Amanda L. Townley, who…
Credit: Denis Borisov/Getty Researchers are increasingly using autonomous artificial-intelligence agents for data interpretation. The accuracy of this analysis depends on the data sets that are available to these programs, and a new study documents how easy it is for fraudsters to ‘poison’ these resources by uploading manipulated data sets that closely resemble the original ones…