Passengers have evacuated a New York City area commuter train after a fire caused at least one car to fill with smoke
Driver trying to set record at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats dies after losing control
A driver trying to set a speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died after losing control of his vehicle
State Department may require visa applicants to post bond of up to $15,000 to enter the US
The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States
A professor had a $2.4m grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected
Jaime Slaughter-Acey’s study addresses the high rates of maternal mortality among Black women in the US. Trump’s NIH funding cuts threaten her years-long research Jaime Slaughter-Acey was in a state of shock and anger when she learned that her National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study on birth outcomes in Black...
Scientists identify bacterium behind devastating wasting disease in starfish
After 90% loss of global sunflower sea star population in 10 years, researchers hope decline can now be tackled A decade after the onset of a sea star wasting disease (SSWD) epidemic considered the largest ever documented in the wild, researchers have identified the microbial culprit responsible: a strain of...
Home cooking and minimally processed foods best for weight loss, study finds
Dieters in trial lost twice as much weight when avoiding ultra-processed ready meals with as much nutrition People lose more weight if they cook minimally processed food from scratch than if they eat ultra-processed and ready-made foods, according to the first study to establish a clear link between ultra-processed foods...
Can you solve it? Ambigrams – you won’t believe these flipping words!
A pun, a puzzle and a work of art UPDATE: Read the solutions here Douglas Hofstadter is probably best known as the author of Gödel, Escher Bach, a classic of popular science writing published in 1979. In 1983, he coined the word “ambigram”, meaning a piece of text that can...
Starwatch: Prepare for a pre-dawn Venus at its peak
The planet will be shining brightly and visible in even the most light-polluted urban environments August is another bright sky month in the northern hemisphere so we’re having to look for late night and early morning events featuring bright celestial objects. Luckily, Venus has us covered. The planet reaches its...
A Mississippi monkey sanctuary helps veterans with PTSD find peace
An Army veteran finds peace through a unique bond with a spider monkey named Louie
Broken altimeter, ignored warnings: Hearings reveal what went wrong in DC crash that killed 67
A long list of things went wrong in January and contributed to the collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines jet over Washington, D