The 2024 Homeland Security appropriations bill increased funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations to handle an anticipated daily detainee population of 41,500, up from an average of 34,000…
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Byzantine bucket pieces found at Sutton Hoo excavation
Archaeologists have unearthed missing fragments of the Bromeswell bucket, a 6th-century Byzantine artefact first discovered at Sutton Hoo, England, during the 1980s. As part of a two-year research project, excavations…
Super Bowl parade shooting survivors await promised donations while bills pile up
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Abigail Arellano keeps her son Samuel’s medical bills in a blue folder in a cabinet above the microwave. Even now, four months after the 11-year-old was…
Real-time modeling of 3D temperature distributions within nuclear microreactors to improve safety systems
Basic layout of the Westinghouse eVinci microreactor design with an enlarged fuel flake. Credit: Price et al., 2024. A real-time, 3D temperature map of the inside of a nuclear microreactor…
UN gender-climate action faces uphill climb as warming hits women hard
At June’s Bonn talks, governments made little progress on gender equality while evidence shows women bear a heavy climate burden In poor households without taps, the responsibility for collecting water…
Frosty volcanoes discovered in Mars’s tropics
The frost sits atop the Tharsis volcanoes: the tallest volcanoes not only on Mars but in the Solar System. It was first seen by ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), and…
Can’t stop won’t stop: Solar Orbiter shows the Sun raging on
The hyperactive sunspot region responsible for the beautiful auroras earlier in May was still alive and kicking when it rotated away from Earth’s view. Watching from the other side of…
Viewpoint: Darwin’s ‘Descent of Man’ is both deeply disturbing and more relevant than ever
Charles Darwin’s Descent of Man is full of unexpected delights — such as the trio of hard drinking, chain-smoking koalas that appear within its first few pages to illustrate our…
Supreme Court sidesteps case on whether federal law on medical emergencies overrides Idaho’s abortion ban
On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case brought by the federal government regarding whether Idaho’s abortion ban conflicts with a federal law called the Emergency Medical…
Adults conceived by donors left behind by fertility industry
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Children conceived by using egg or sperm donors have the same well-being outcomes as non-donor-conceived people. However, they are more likely to have identity difficulties and…
