Rooting out manipulation should not depend on dedicated amateurs who take personal legal risks for the greater good. As the Oxford university psychologist Dorothy Bishop has written, we only know about the ones who get caught. In her view, our “relaxed attitude” to the scientific fraud epidemic is a “disaster-in-waiting.” Read more…
The world’s biggest iceberg is on the move after more than 30 years being stuck to the ocean floor. From a report: The iceberg, called A23a, split from the Antarctic coastline in 1986. But it swiftly grounded in the Weddell Sea, becoming, essentially, an ice island. At almost 4,000 sq Read more…
“Every car we were driving with was heading that direction…” Shelby Easler says in a TikTok video, “so we assumed this was going somewhere…” But SFGate reports that instead of a handy “alternate route,” Google Maps was leading her and her two passengers “far off the major highway and into Read more…
America passed a climate bill in August of 2022 with incentives to build wind and solar energy in regions that historically relied on fossil fuels. And sure enough, since then a disproportionate amount of wind, solar, battery and manufacturing investment is going to areas that used to host fossil fuel Read more…
Brazil has signed onto an agreement to triple renewable energy globally by 2030 and shift away from using coal, the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday, joining a prospective deal backed by the European Union, U.S. and United Arab Emirates. South America’s largest country is now one of roughly 100 Read more…
Dirty air killed more than half a million people in the EU in 2021, estimates show, and about half of the deaths could have been avoided by cutting pollution to the limits recommended by doctors. From a report: The researchers from the European Environment Agency attributed 253,000 early deaths to Read more…
Scientists have detected the most powerful cosmic ray seen in more than three decades. But the exact origin of this turbocharged particle from outer space remains a mystery, with some suggesting that it could have been generated by unknown physics. From a report: The puzzling cosmic ray had an estimated Read more…