Sciences

Pumping the Mississippi River West: Solution or Dream?

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By Brittney J. Miller, Cedar Rapids Gazette February 2, 2023 GMT https://apnews.com/article/science-arizona-state-government-california-disaster-planning-and-response-automated-insights-earnings-be28e7e022007c82cdee63ca2b9ed555 Cedar Rapids, Iowa (AP) — California has been drenched in torrential rains in the new year. Snowpacks in the Sierra Nevada mountains have swelled to more than 200% of their normal size, and snowfall across the rest of the Colorado River basin is … Read more

Biologists and wildlife advocates cite science to drive Grey’s plan

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Laura Lundquist (The Missoula Stream) More than two dozen organizations and scientists have offered critiques of Montana’s proposed grizzly bear management plan, hinting at obstacles that might hinder the delisting. With three days left until the closing of the comment period on the state’s grizzly bear management plan proposed by the Gianforte administration, 27 organizations … Read more

Why more physicists are beginning to think that space and time are “illusions”

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Last December, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the experimental confirmation of a quantum phenomenon known for more than 80 years: entanglement. As conceived by Albert Einstein and his collaborators in 1935, quantum objects can be mysteriously related even if they are separated by great distances. But as bizarre as the phenomenon sounds, … Read more

From China to Japan, a deadly cold is gripping East Asia. Experts say it’s the ‘new norm’

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Hong Kong CNN – A deadly cold snap sweeping across East Asia has killed at least four people in Japan after sub-zero temperatures and heavy snow wreak havoc on travel over the Lunar New Year holiday, with climate experts warning such extreme weather events are becoming ” The new rule. Japanese officials said all those … Read more