As air taxi services make progress in US, no timeline set for liftoff over LA traffic

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When the idea of electric air taxis emerged, Los Angeles was vying to be one of the first cities that would utilize the technology to help…

First Neandertal with Down Syndrome: Evidence of Altruistic Care in Prehistory

Summary: A new study documents the first case of Down syndrome in a Neandertal child named “Tina,” found in Spain. Despite severe hearing loss and vertigo, Tina survived to at…

Gazans’ extreme hunger could leave its mark on subsequent generations

As Israel’s offensive in Gaza rages on, people across the entire Gaza Strip find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances, with nearly the entire population experiencing high levels of food insecurity,…

In narrow ruling, US Supreme Court allows emergency abortions in Idaho

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The US Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for women experiencing medical emergencies to obtain abortions in Idaho, but the ruling’s narrow scope meant it…

US investigative agency sanctions Boeing for discussing probe

US investigative authorities slammed Boeing after Elizabeth Lund, Boeing senior vice president of quality, discussed an ongoing probe at a media briefing this week. A US investigative authority sharply rebuked…

The science behind splashdown—aerospace engineer explains how NASA and SpaceX get spacecraft safely back

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For about 15 minutes on July 21, 1961, American astronaut Gus Grissom felt at the top of the world—and indeed he was. Grissom crewed the Liberty…

The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the species went extinct

Four thousand years ago, on an island off the coast of what is now Siberia, the world’s last woolly mammoth took its final breath. Living on that island, isolated from…

Researchers find magnetic excitations can be held together by repulsive interactions

how standing dead biomass affects litter decomposition of herbs – Functional Ecologists

In this Behind the Paper blog post, Šárka Angst – a research assistant at the Czech Academy of Sciences – discusses her paper “The effect of dead standing (marcescent) biomass…

UK’s Labour pledges climate “solidarity” with developing nations, no new funds

Labour’s shadow foreign minister says cost-of-living crisis means some climate finance must come from outside rich governments’ budgets A Labour Party government in the UK would show “full solidarity and…