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Ghostwriters, polo shirts, and the fall of a landmark pesticide study
A flagship study that declared the weedkiller Roundup posed no serious health risks has been retracted with little fanfare, ending... Read more -
The silent violence of ableism in architecture
Outdated models of disability still dominate thinking in our built environment. Approaches grounded in old medical and charity models of... Read more -
Fabergé's rare Winter Egg fetches record £22.9 mn at auction
Fabergé's The Winter Egg, considered one of his most beautiful creations, sold for nearly £23 million ($30 million) at auction... Read more -
Long-lost Rubens 'masterpiece' sells for almost 3 mn euros
A long-lost painting by 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens sold at auction in France on Sunday for almost three... Read more -
Drones have changed warfare. Two new weapons might alter its course again
Like so many conflicts before it, the Russo-Ukraine war has forced both sides to innovate. Since they have been able... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Cute squid with scary name; potential detection of dark matter; fate of the AMOC
This week, researchers reported that weight and health markers may rebound when patients stop using some of the new hormonal... Read more -
Charles Darwin's address book: A new window into his private world
The Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has published for the first time: Charles Darwin's personal... Read more -
Info to decipher secret message in Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters sells for close to $1M
The information needed to decipher the last remaining unsolved secret message embedded within a sculpture at CIA headquarters in Virginia... Read more -
Auction of famed CIA cipher shaken after archive reveals code
It is one of the world's most famous unsolved codes whose answer could sell for a fortune—but two US friends... Read more
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Saturday Citations: Humans have sensitive hands; solar system travels 3 times faster than predicted
It's the third of a generous five Saturdays in the month of November. What did we do to deserve such... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Black hole flare unprecedented; the strength of memories; bugs on the menu
This week, researchers reported finding a spider megacity in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border, and experts say that... Read more -
Zuckerberg, Chan shift bulk of philanthropy to science, focusing on AI and biology to curb disease
For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a... Read more -
Ancient Greeks and Romans knew harming the environment could change the climate
Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia.... Read more -
Cyclists may be right to run stop signs and red lights. Here's why
Interactions between different users on roads are often a source of frustration, the most prominent being those between motorists and... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Test flight of the X-59; a confounding quantum calculation; the universe is not simulated
This week, researchers published LIGO findings that hint at the existence of second-generation black holes. Astronomers captured a spectacular new... Read more
