Enlarge (credit: Pramote Polyamate) Earlier this week, the Pew Research Center announced the results of polling that asked the US public its thoughts on how to address climate change. While the usual partisan split was apparent, the survey highlights an even larger challenge that policymakers will face: the US public supports contradictory things when it comes […]
Enlarge (credit: Degui Adil / Getty Images) It is often said that the difference between science and superstition is that science is reproducible. Unfortunately, many scientific papers aren’t, making them about as reliable as superstition. Since the mid-1600s , the output from a typical scientific study has been an essay-style journal article describing the results. […]
Enlarge / U.S. President Joe Biden signs an executive order in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images) Yesterday, US President Joe Biden signed three executive orders. The order with the widest scope was focused on climate policy, and it received […]
Expand / / A aerial perspective of the Arecibo centre, revealing that the increasingly brittle cables behind the device platform, in addition to the gash generated when one of these cables neglected. Now the National Science Foundation announced that the famous Arecibo radio observatory will be closed down. Built to a hilltop from Puerto Rico, […]