How to See the Conjunction Between Mars, Jupiter, and the Moon
This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. August has delivered many spectacular sights in the night sky: a supermoon, meteor showers, and supercharged auroras. Mars and Jupiter also currently appear unusually close together in the night sky, in what’s known as a conjunction. They appeared closest during the […]
August’s supermoon kicks off four months of lunar spectacles. Here’s how to watch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first of four supermoons this year rises next week, providing tantalizing views of Earth’s constant companion. Stargazers can catch the first act Monday as the full moon inches a little closer than usual, making it appear slightly bigger and brighter in the night sky. “I like to think of the […]
Ayelet Fishbach: How to set the right goals and stay motivated
You can’t just “find” motivation, says scientist Ayelet Fishbach — you have to learn how to motivate yourself. She shares a handful of tips backed by 20 years of motivation research, offering surprisingly simple wisdom on how to optimize your goals, set yourself up for success and avoid the tempting calls of procrastination. Source link
Tropical weather brings record rainfall. Experts share how to stay safe in floods
The extreme weather seen in places across the United States in recent weeks shows that it doesn’t take a catastrophic hurricane to cause significant damage — the torrential rain from Tropical Storm Debby in parts of the Southeast is just one example. The slow-moving system lingering over Georgia and the Carolinas Wednesday after coming ashore […]
How to Stop Wildfire Smoke Damaging Your Health
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. When wildfires rage, the immediate threat is obvious—but smoke from the fires actually kills far more people than the flames. As fires become more frequent, that smoke is leading to a public health crisis. In a new study published in the journal Science […]
How to Create More Good Jobs by Simon Johnson
At least since the 2008 global financial crisis, widespread frustration with stagnant economic prospects and deep regional disparities in developed countries has fueled increasingly dangerous forms of anger. But there are constructive ways forward, as the example of the 2022 US CHIPS and Science Act shows. WASHINGTON, DC – In many countries, innovation and good […]
Jonathan Foley: The problem with food and climate — and how to fix it | TED Talk
Global food production — from meat to grains — accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions, says sustainability scientist Jonathan Foley. Source link
Roadmap details how to improve exoplanet exploration using the James Webb Space Telescope
A new step-by-step roadmap describes how to improve the efficiency of data gathering with the JWST to benefit the astronomy community at large. “Our hope now is that a large-scale community effort guided by the roadmap can be initiated to yield deliverables at a timely pace,” says MIT Associate Professor Julien de Wit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech […]
Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career: Bohr: Algebra is like sheet music. The important thing isn’t “can you read music?” It’s “can you hear it?” Can you hear the music, Robert? Oppenheimer: Yes, I can. I can’t hear the algebra, […]
How to make an old antibiotic 100 times more potent
Scanning electron micrographs at 10,000× magnification of vancomycin resistant E. faecium E155 cells. Left: untreated cells, middle: cells treated with bacitracin, and right: cells treated with next-generation bacitracin. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2315310121 Nathaniel Martin, Professor of biological chemistry, wondered what would happen if you took an antibiotic that […]