US tries to bury report on climate change’s dire health, economic impacts
Release schedule changed at the last minute.
Science // Science & Exploration
We have food safety laws thanks to 19th century “poison squad”
Ars chats with author Deborah Blum about her new book, The Poison Squad.
Sick ants stay away from the kids
They stay out, at work, to protect everyone in the nest from infection.
Here’s how NASA will attempt to land on the Red Planet Monday
"Certainly, there are always a number of things that could go wrong."
Natural gas firms have a proposal to convert home heating to hydrogen
Three companies want to test out a pilot project in Northern England by 2028.
Collating memories of what happened based on where it happened
Rats keep track of a position in two different ways.
The Journal of Controversial Ideas—academic freedom sans responsibility is reckless
The academic community is worse off without intellectual conversation.
Medieval dental plaque sheds light on how our microbiomes have changed
If you don't brush your teeth, future archaeologists will know everything about you.
An intermediary between qubits provides basis for control and scaling
Linking qubits via an intermediary protects quantum information for longer.
DNA data from Africans reveals sequences that we’d missed
One reference genome doesn't capture the huge variation in human DNA.
Six people swallowed LEGOs and pored through their own poo for science
It takes about two days for LEGO minifig heads to pass through the body. Science!
