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Geminid meteor shower 2023: How to see the spectacular show late tonight
The Geminid meteor shower over Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in China Jeff Dai/Stocktrek Images/Alamy The peak of the Geminid meteor shower, very early on the morning of 14 December, is expected to dazzle this year. The shower started on 19 November and will end on 24 December, but keep an eye out over the coming…
A new UN report lays out an ethical framework for climate engineering
The world is in a climate crisis — and in the waning days of what’s likely to be the world’s hottest year on record, a new United Nations report is weighing the ethics of using technological interventions to try to rein in rising global temperatures. “The current speed at which the effects of global warming…
A mysterious ancient grave with a sword and mirror belonged to a woman
A roughly 2,000-year-old woman with a potentially violent streak has emerged from skeletal rubble found on an island off southwestern England’s coast. A jumble of tooth and bone fragments in a Late Iron Age grave belonged to a young woman who was interred with items that include a sword, shield and bronze mirror, researchers report…
Giant polygon rock patterns may be buried deep below Mars’ surface
Enormous polygon patterns in rock lie dozens of meters below Mars’ surface, ground-penetrating radar data suggest. Similar patterns develop on the surface in Earth’s polar regions when icy sediments cool and contract. A comparable process long ago may have created the shapes on Mars, found near the planet’s dry equator, researchers report November 23 in…
COP28: Landmark deal begins a qualified end to the fossil fuel era
COP28 has concluded with an agreement on moving away from fossil fuels GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images Fossil fuels will not be “phased out”, but the world has now agreed that we must rapidly transition away from using oil, gas and coal in order to reach net zero by 2050, in a historic moment at…
Ancient Maya power brokers lived in neighborhoods, not just palaces
Pots with fancifully molded eyes, noses and mouths were one of the tip-offs. Adrian Chase already had a growing sense that Maya society wasn’t quite what it’s been traditionally portrayed as: powerful rulers reigning while powerless commoners obeyed — or perhaps lived far enough from seats of power to operate largely on their own. Work…
Electrical brain implants may help patients with severe brain injuries
For people with traumatic brain injuries, cognitive functions like memory, attention and mood regulation can become exceedingly difficult. But “there is no therapy for this kind of problem, even though it’s so prevalent,” says Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Now, in a small study of individuals who have…
A telescope dropped dark matter data from the edge of space. Here’s why
Doomsday came on May 25 for the payload of a pumpkin-shaped balloon at the edge of space. The floating gourd — inflated with more than 500,000 cubic meters of helium and large enough to fit 60 Goodyear blimps inside it — traversed the southern hemisphere some five times in 40 days, toting a telescope that…
These are Science News’ favorite books of 2023
Books introducing emerging areas of science, as well as new looks at familiar fields, were among the Science News staff’s favorite science reads this year. Did we overlook your favorite? Let us know at feedback@sciencenews.org. BlightEmily MonossonW.W. Norton & Co., $28.95 HBO’s The Last of Us introduced many people to the dangers of fungi. But…
Landscape Explorer shows how much the American West has changed
With the click of a mouse, a new mapping tool shows how places in the American West have changed over the last 70 years. With just a Web browser, anyone can open Landscape Explorer, which will pull up a modern Google map of the United States beside a black-and-white aerial image of the western states…