Stronger Flood-Related Building Codes Are Coming for New Hospitals, Schools and Apartments
Stronger Flood Protection Standards Are Coming for New Hospitals, Schools and ApartmentsThe International Code Council has approved stronger building codes...
Blood of Man Who’s Had 200 Snakebites Helps Make a Potent Antivenom
Blood of Man Who’s Had 200 Snakebites Helps Make a Potent AntivenomA new snakebite treatment combines an existing drug with...
Self-Driving Cars Have New Rules in the U.S. Here’s Why That Matters
Self-Driving Cars Have New Rules in the U.S. Here’s Why That MattersNew rules that trim crash reporting requirements and widen...
Under Trump, National Science Foundation Cuts Off All Funding to Scientists
National Science Foundation Halts Funding IndefinitelyNational Science Foundation staff were told to freeze outgoing funding days after NSF leadership introduced...
Solar Geoengineering Is Possible with Existing Aircraft, Study Finds
CLIMATEWIRE | A futuristic geoengineering proposal might be easier to accomplish in the real world than scientists previously thought.New research...
Trump Dismisses Scientists Writing the National Climate Assessment
Trump Dismisses Scientists Writing Key Climate ReportPresident Trump has dismissed hundreds of scientists working on the congressionally mandated National Climate...
Carnivorous ‘Bone Collector’ Caterpillars Wear Corpses as Camouflage
Carnivorous ‘Bone Collector’ Caterpillars Wear Corpses as CamouflageNicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off...
How THC, the Psychoactive Compound in Weed, Gets You High
Marijuana contains more than 500 active compounds. But most people focus on two: There’s cannabidiol, or CBD, which reduces inflammation.And...
Researchers Discover New Color That’s Impossible to See without Lasering Your Retinas
This Impossible New Color Is So Rare That Only Five People Have Seen ItResearchers discover a new color outside the...
Neutrino Mass Mystery Shrinks with Latest KATRIN Results
Physicists Are Closer Than Ever to Solving the Puzzle of the Ghostly Neutrino’s MassIn just the first 259 days of...
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