The muddy trail levels out and we stop to catch our breath. Which is good, because hiking with my eyes covered has been a pain in the ass. A voice says: “You can take your blindfold off now.” I squint as I get my bearings. Then, after a bit more …
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Each year, the Nikon Small World In Motion competition showcases compelling microscopic videos that reveal detailed pictures of entire worlds hidden within our own.The winner of the 2024 edition is a captivating video showing mitotic waves in the embryo of a fruit fly (drosophila melanogaster). Captured by Dr. Bruno Vellutini …
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Right between Whitechapel Hospital and London’s City district, pedestrians pass by a soon-to-be-usual sight: a wildflower meadow growing vertically on the walls of a construction hoarding. Commissioned by the Tower Hamlets council and created by Vertical Meadows, the pilot project aims to bring biodiversity to busy urban areas, while also …
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Billions of birds are likely killed in the U.S. each year — but contrary to popular claims, wind turbines aren’t nearly a primary culprit. Former President Trump has continually used his prominent platform to claim that wind turbines — an economically sensible part of energy generation in the U.S. — …
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There’s supposedly nothing special about a blue moon. A full moon is just a moon phase, and a blue moon is just a designation for certain full moons — the ones timed to fall before the end of a month that already had one full moon. True, unless it’s like …
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The dark spaces beneath the conifers make it feel as if the mountain bikers are emerging from nowhere. Racing down the hill, they slalom perilously close to the trees, bouncing over roots, rocks, and purpose-built jumps, their progress punctuated by the occasional, adrenaline-fueled whoop of delight. This is Bike Park …
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Now that’s an Olympic effort. The Seine river is swimmable again after a century-long ban. On July 17, Paris’ mayor Anne Hidalgo took a swim in the Seine after a race to clean up the river in time for the 2024 Olympics. The enormous cleaning effort took several years and …
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TL;DR: Get the Abotec 80090 Telescope for $119.99. Perfect for all skill levels, it offers clear views of the night sky and daytime landscapes. Ever dreamed of exploring the stars from your own backyard? With this telescope, you can turn those dreams into reality, featuring a 90mm aperture and 800mm …
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The climate crisis is making days longer, and it’s bad news for tech. According to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,climate change is slowing down the Earth’s rotation.As ice sheet and glacier melting accelerates, rising sea levels redistribute mass from the poles to the equator, …
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This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. Summer arrives, and with it comes an arachnophobic furor—frantic reports about the intrusion of recluse spiders into our homes. Also known as fiddlebacks or violin spiders, these are arachnids of the genus Loxosceles. They’re found in …
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