The Real Reason Amazon Just Called Everyone Back to the Office

"With its recent demand that employees come back to the office (BTO), Amazon just tipped its hand and showed how bad the brewing real estate catastrophe is about to get — and it’s worse than you could imagine."

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Why Montana is emerging as a must-watch climate battleground

"This month, Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a law barring the state from calculating the climate impacts of major projects. At the same time, a federal judge ruled that a first-of-its-kind climate lawsuit will go to trial next month."

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Kudzu

"Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) is now a classic image of the South, since it is common on roadsides but rare in the colder areas north of Virginia. Botanists displayed kudzu at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876."

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‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead - The …

"Dr. Geoffrey Hinton is leaving Google so that he can freely share his concern that artificial intelligence could cause the world serious harm."

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The Universe is a hologram: Stephen Hawking's final theory, explained by his closest collaborator

"In 1998 Stephen Hawking took me on as his PhD student “to work on a quantum theory of the Big Bang”. What started out as a doctoral project evolved over some 20 years into an intense collaboration that ended only with ."

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Contested Terrain : North Cascades National Park Service Complex : An Administrative History (Introduction)

"Washington's North Cascades rank as some of the country's wildest, most rugged, and beautiful mountains outside of Alaska."

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U.S. to announce fusion energy ‘breakthrough’

"Scientists hit a key milestone in the quest to create abundant zero-carbon power through nuclear fusion. But they still have a long way to go."

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The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It

"One of the more unsettling discoveries in the past half century is that the universe is not locally real."

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Isoprene

"The Blue Ridge Mountains conjure a romantic vision of the central Appalachian Mountains on the east coast of the US, immortalised by Dolly Parton, John Denver and the Grateful Dead, among others."

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NASA's Webb Space Telescope Is So Good, We Might Need Improved Planetary Models

"It has become exceedingly clear, over the past few months, that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope does exactly what it set out to do."

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The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver

"For 52 straight days this winter, Shannon Hovey woke up in the company of five other men in a metal tube, 20 feet long and seven feet in diameter, tucked deep inside a ship in the Gulf of Mexico."

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These Charts Show July Stock Market Rally May Prove a False Dawn

"The list of obstacles to the stock market rally gets longer by the day. Equities had a blast in July with those in Europe and the US rising the most since 2020, yet it’s a long way from a short-term bear market rally to a sustained move higher."

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What is Epigenetics?

"Your genes play an important role in your health, but so do your behaviors and environment, such as what you eat and how physically active you are. Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work."

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How to See the First James Webb Telescope Images

"We all held our collective breath late last year when NASA launched the long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope on its monthlong journey to a destination nearly a million miles away."

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Humans can't endure temperatures and humidities as high as previously thought

"According to the researchers, while previous studies have theorized that a 35°C wet-bulb temperature was the upper limit of human adaptability, that temperature was based on theory and modeling and not real-world data from humans."

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Regular caffeine consumption affects brain structure

"Coffee, cola or an energy drink: caffeine is the world's most widely consumed psychoactive substance. Researchers from the University of Basel have now shown in a study that regular caffeine intake can change the gray matter of the brain. However, the effect appears to be temporary."

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Cowfish: The Mutant Superheroes of the Ocean

"Stan Lee, creator of the mutant superheroes X-Men, wishes he could have come up with a mutant power as awesome as the cowfish."

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NASA-funded Study : Gulf of Maine’s Phytoplankton Productivity Down 65%

"The Gulf of Maine is growing increasingly warm and salty, due to ocean currents pushing warm water into the gulf from the Northwest Atlantic, according to a new NASA-funded study. These temperature and salinity changes have led to a substantial decrease in the productivity of phytoplankton that serve as the basis of the marine food web."

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The Airlines Most Likely to Suck, According to Department of Transportation Data

"If you’re booking summer travel and faced with a choice of similarly priced tickets on different airlines, it’s worth doing a little homework first."

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CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as "breaking news"

"CNN's new boss Chris Licht says that beginning today, CNN has added a "Breaking News” guideline to its stylebook, to address overuse of the breaking news banner across its network and cable news writ-large. Why it matters: Licht and Warner Bros."

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