Global Warming Is Likely to Breach the 1.5 Degrees C Milestone within 5 Years
One of the next five years will almost certainly be the hottest on record, and there’s a two-in-three chance one year will cross the crucial global warming threshold of 1.5 degrees C Credit: chuchart duangdaw/Getty ImagesThe following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. One year in the next five will
Stone Engravings of Mysterious Ancient Megastructures May Be World’s Oldest ‘Blueprints’
An aerial view of a desert kite in Jebel az-Zilliyat in Saudi Arabia. Credit: O. Barge/CNRSArchaeologists have unearthed ancient stone engravings of vast animal traps in Jordan and Saudi Arabia that are possibly the earliest “blueprints” ever discovered. The engravings, estimated to be about 7,000 to 8,000 years old, are precise plans for nearby structures archaeologists
Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder Through The ‘Community’ of Ella
Josh Fischman: Welcome to Science, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series. I'm Josh Fischman, Scientific American Senior Health editor. Is it possible for one person to have several completely different personalities? I've seen movies and read books that claim that this happens, but is it real? To answer that question today, I'm joined by psychotherapist
Largest-Ever Cosmic Explosion Has Raged for Years
An artist’s impression of an active galactic nucleus—a galaxy’s bustling central region, which is typically occupied by a supermassive black hole. Matter falling in to such a black hole can spark jets and other enormous outbursts—potentially even the years-long cosmic explosion recently discovered by astronomers. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser and L. CalçadaAstronomers have witnessed the largest
World’s Deadliest Mushroom May Now Have an Antidote
A CRISPR gene-editing technique might have finally cracked the mystery of how death cap mushrooms kill and revealed a possible antidoteNinety per cent of the fatalities caused each year by ingesting poisonous mushrooms are caused by death caps. Credit: adrianam13/Getty ImagesThe death cap mushroom (Amanita phalloides), which has been the ‘killer of kings’ for centuries, could be
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