Olympic athletes from Russia huddle before their game against Canada in a women’s preliminary round match. The International Olympic Committee had banned Russia because of a massive doping scheme at the 2014 Sochi Games, but gave individual athletes the chance to apply for admission to compete as “Olympic athletes from […]
Daily Archives: February 12, 2018
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India reached a globe-shaking threshold this year. Its economy is now growing at a faster clip than China’s. That might be a source of pride for the country and its prime minister, Narendra Modi. Except it is not. In its latest economic report, the government stated that India’s future development […]
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE There’s nothing funny about anaphylactic shock, even when it’s caused by a cute little bunny, according to a group of concerned parents and allergy activists. In “Peter Rabbit,” the new Sony Pictures movie […]
Turbulence in oceans, in the atmosphere or in industry, is billions of times stronger than in lab experiments. Simply upscaling the lab results is not an option. Theoretically, however, there is a regime of turbulence in which scaling laws apply. Researchers have succeeded in reaching this ‘asymptotic ultimate regime’ of […]
There have been three fatal crashes since December More President Trump unveiled his budget for fiscal year 2019 on Monday, along with a 55 page infrastructure plan. And despite his calls to increase railroad safety, his budget proposes cutting federal grants to Amtrak by over 50%. Under the budget, the […]
Global sea level rise is not cruising along at a steady rate per year, but rather accelerating a little every year like a driver merging onto a highway.
The first large-scale analysis of corporate practices for sourcing sustainable materials shows that many companies address sustainability at some level, but most deal with only one or a subset of materials within a small portion of their supply chain.
Researchers scanned the brains of individuals with alcohol abuse disorder and found that the neurotransmitter glutamate may play a role in some addition cravings.