A high-stakes California ballot measure pitched as a fast track for “essential” infrastructure could wind up giving data center developers a loophole to evade public scrutiny, environmental advocates warn. Proposition 45 would shorten timelines for state-mandated environmental assessments for eligible projects and make it more difficult for residents to challenge those projects in court. Proponents
The upcoming US mid-term elections could change which political party controls Congress, which meets in the US Capitol building in Washington DC.Credit: Finn Gomez/Getty As tens of millions of voters head to the polls on 3 November to cast ballots in the US mid-term elections, a political shake-up could be coming to Washington DC —
Discoveries of some species, such as this Pleurobranchaea britannica mollusc (left), are often seen as less enticing than others, such as the fossil dinosaur Spinosaurus mirabilis (artist’s impression, right).Credit: Turani, M. et al./Zoosyst. Evol. CC BY 4.0, JA Chirinos/SPL In February, a study in Science1 described a new species of Spinosaurus — a group of
Actor Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard.Credit: RGR Collection/Alamy Researchers have joined the chorus of Star Trek fans expressing grief at the death of actor Patrick Stewart, who played the legendary Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Stewart, who died on 28 October aged 86, portrayed Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987 to 1994 and
Lenny fell in love with Bea around burrito number five. He recognized that dizzying jolt to his brain the instant the tunnel’s mouth sighed with a sweet pneumatic hiss and the vacuum-sealed burrito glided in. Three hours and twenty-one minutes earlier, 2,553 miles away, at her end of the tunnel in the East Bay facility,
Science funding agencies are increasingly setting up their own units to conduct metascience — using the scientific method to study how research is funded, performed and evaluated. In July, Michael Kratsios, the director of the US Office of Science and Technology Policy, called for every federal science agency to create such a unit. A similar