AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar20 hours agoFans push to reunite magpie and dog ‘besties,’ separated by authoritiesverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Annabelle TimsitPeggy and Molly are typical best friends. They hang out. Play. Sunbathe. But in one important way, they are an unusual pair: Peggy is a dog, and Molly is a magpie. A couple in Queensland, Australia, rescued Molly in 2020 after she fell from a nest. The magpie bonded with their Staffordshire terrier, …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar1 day agoWhy investigators are looking into ‘dirty fuel’ in Baltimore bridge collapseverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Joel Achenbach“Dirty fuel” is one of several possible factors that may have caused the cargo ship Dali to lose power in the moments before it smashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday, according to shipping industry experts. The investigation by federal, state and local authorities into …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar1 day agoClimate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clocksverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Joel AchenbachClimate change is messing with time itself. The melting of polar ice due to global warming is affecting Earth’s rotation and could have an impact on precision timekeeping, according to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The planet is not about to jerk to a halt, nor speed up so rapidly …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar3 days agoBirds, bees and even plants might act weird during the solar eclipseverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Carolyn Y. JohnsonA total eclipse isn’t just a spectacle in the sky. When the moon consumes the sun on April 8, day will plunge into twilight, the temperature will drop — and nature will take notice. Reports abound of unusual animal and plant behavior during eclipses. A swarm of ants carrying food froze until the sun …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar3 days agoBird flu detected in milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansasverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Andrew JeongMilk and nasal swab samples from sick cattle on at least two dairy farms in Texas and two in Kansas have tested positive for bird flu, according to federal and state officials. Agencies are moving quickly to conduct more testing for the illness — known as highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI — …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar4 days agoFatal mountain lion attack in California is first in decadesverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Praveena SomasundaramA teenager called 911 from a remote area in California on Saturday to report a rare incident: He and his brother had been attacked by a mountain lion. The 18-year-old and his 21-year-old brother were separated during the attack. When officials arrived to the scene in Georgetown, Calif., an area …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar6 days agoClimate change threatens snow cover at ski destinations worldwideverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Erin BlakemoreOne in 8 ski destinations will lose all of their natural snow cover because of climate change by the end of the century, an analysis published this month in the journal PLOS One suggests. The chilling prediction points to falling snow cover in seven major mountainous ski regions worldwide, with …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar6 days agoThe tricky quest to create an artificial solar eclipseverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Carolyn Y. JohnsonLOVELAND PASS, Colo. — The scientists had lost the sun. It was still up there, rising above a massive, snow-covered ridge in the heart of the Rocky Mountains on a crisp morning in October. But the tracking mechanism that kept their telescope locked on the fiery orb had stopped working, hindering …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar62-year-old receives gene-edited pig kidney in milestone transplant surgeryverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Mark JohnsonAfter once losing hope because of end-stage kidney disease, a 62-year-old man is now the first living person to receive a genetically edited kidney from a pig, according to doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital who performed the landmark surgery Saturday. Richard Slayman, whom doctors praised …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatarScientists found an amazingly well-preserved village from 3,000 years agoverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Adela SulimanLONDON — A half-eaten bowl of porridge complete with a wooden spoon, communal rubbish bins, and a decorative necklace made with amber and glass beads are just a handful of the extraordinarily well-preserved remnants of a late Bronze Age hamlet unearthed in eastern England that has been dubbed …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatarA supervolcano erupted 74,000 years ago. Here’s how humans survived it.verified_publisherThe Washington Post - Carolyn Y. JohnsonMicroscopic shards of glass that rained down from an ancient supervolcano eruption reveal how early modern humans adapted to dramatic climate change, according to a new study of a prehistoric site in northwestern Ethiopia. For decades, scientists have debated just how apocalyptic it was when Toba, a …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatarWhile Earth enjoys an eclipse, a NASA probe is ready to ‘touch the sun’verified_publisherThe Washington Post - Joel AchenbachThe sun is having a glamorous year. It’s at solar maximum, the peak of its 11-year cycle of storminess. It’s been hurling great blobs of charged particles at Earth on a regular basis, intensifying the high-latitude auroras. And in a particularly flamboyant star turn, the sun on April 8 will hide …