Should an area be fenced off, should animals be sterilized or relocated—or, as a last resort, selectively culled? As the long-running controversy over white-tailed deer in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil’s Michel-Chartrand Park has shown, managing wildlife in peri-urban parks…
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Schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine.
If a dangerous asteroid were headed toward Earth, one defense could be a nuclear detonation to blast one side with X-rays and nudge it off course. But new simulations suggest that for a lumpy, irregular asteroid, exactly where those X-rays…
W.E.B. Du Bois’ standing as a distinguished social scientist, with a distinguished body of work, has been subjected to the same marginalizing forces he examined in his pioneering scholarship on race, culture and Black social thought.
Scientists have identified a new species of copepod living in a small limestone cave in Bermuda, a creature collected years before anyone confirmed what it was. Named Tetragoniceps bermudensis, it is the first known cave-dwelling member of its genus anywhere…
Using advanced laser spectroscopy on extremely rare radioactive material, researchers have uncovered new insights into the structure of heavy atomic nuclei. The nucleus of fermium-255 is far from spherical. Scientists have now determined its shape for the first time, finding…
Schools across the country have long grown dependent on Google, from its eponymous search engine to services like Gmail and Chromebooks, the company’s cheap laptops that have become commonplace in classrooms. But it’s a fraught relationship that’s now seriously being…
The mayor’s comments come after the entertainment giant’s data breach last year, which exposed James Dolan’s surveillance.
A newly identified Arctic Ocean bacterium may have an unusual way of making the building blocks it needs to grow. Using acetone, a common chemical in seawater, the bacteria incorporate carbon dioxide (CO₂) into their metabolisms, allowing them to survive…
High temperatures change how mealybugs feed, and that could help explain why some pasture mealybug infestations do far more damage than others, according to early findings from Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists.