The city of Alameda has ordered the University of Washington to halt a controversial marine cloud brightening experiment on the USS Hornet — a decommissioned aircraft carrier — citing health and environmental safety concerns.

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The European Space Agency has released an incredible video of the Sun's roiling surface, which was taken by its Solar Orbiter last year. The video shows strands of energized particles leaving the star's lower atmosphere in the form of "coronal rain," with small eruptions of plasma dotting a fuzzy, "coronal moss" surface — a […]

Certain brain layers specialize in particular waves—which might aid understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders

Scientists are debating whether concepts like memory, consciousness, and communication can be applied beyond the animal kingdom. May 01, 2024 On a freezing day in December 2021, I arrived in Madison, Wisconsin, to visit Simon Gilroy’s lab. In one room of the lab sat a flat of young tobacco and Arabidopsis plants, each imbued with fluorescent proteins derived from jellyfish. Researchers led me into a small microscope room. One of them turned off the lights, and another handed me a pair of