A commentary appearing here at the Swiss Baseler Zeitung (BAZ) slams a recently published British paper on moss growth in Antarctica that gave the impression the south polar continent was greening up due to climate change.

The BAZ writes that the paper is an example of “how today science is manipulated and used for political purposes“.

If I had not looked past the headline of the press report on a new study, I would have just filed it under “It’s worse than we thought”. While technically correct, the story was misleading.

A bag of moon dust from NASA’s Apollo 11 mission – which a woman bought for $995 in 2015 — sold for $1.8 million at a Sotheby’s auction this week following an intense court battle.

Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have slammed tech entrepreneur Elon Musk for apparently trying to scaremonger over AI.

Earlier this week, the South African-born billionaire said that authorities need to regulate AI now before it is too late.

Managing lifestyle factors such as hearing loss, smoking, hypertension, and depression could prevent one-third of the world’s dementia cases, according to a report by the first Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention and Care.

We may be capable of finding microbes in space—but if we did, could we tell what they were and that they were alive?

Comedian Bill Nye “The Science Guy” said Wednesday that the climate change movement can only move forward once the older generation begins to die off.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk called on NASA to build a moon base during a space technology conference Wednesday.

The EPA has this graph on their website, showing that the worst US heat waves (by far) occurred during the 1930s.

Climate Change Indicators: High and Low Temperatures | Climate Change Indicators in the United States | US EPA

Demis Hassabis knows a thing or two about artificial intelligence: he founded the London-based AI startup DeepMind, which was purchased by Google for $650 million back in 2014. Since then, his company has wiped the floor with humans at the complex game of Go and begun making steps towards crafting more general AIs.

Researchers have found that the formation and breakup of supercontinents over hundreds of millions of years control volcanic carbon emissions.

The two gases that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identifies as being the instruments by which humanity is destroying of the biosphere are the two gases that give the biosphere life—carbon dioxide (CO₂) and water vapor (H₂O), i.e., humidity.

The Greenland Ice Sheet is gaining near record amounts of ice this year. Very little melting has occurred this summer, which is about to start winding down.

Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI

The ‘Real Proxy’ Temperature Record Hints Near-Global Cooling Has Begun

As a new scientific paper (Turney et al., 2017) indicates, the Southern Ocean encompasses 14{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of the Earth’s surface. And according to regional temperature measurements that have apparently not been subjected to warming “corrections” by data adjusters, the Southern Ocean has been cooling in recent decades.

Dogs’ ability to communicate and interact with humans is one the most astonishing differences between them and their wild cousins, wolves. A new study published today in the journal Science Advances identifies genetic changes that are linked to dogs’ human-directed social behaviors and suggests there is a common underlying genetic basis for hypersocial behavior in both dogs and humans.

For a decade, the weathercaster and broadcast meteorology communities have been the subject of a focused campaign to force them to cover global warming in a manner acceptable to the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and other advocacy groups.

How well is their strategy working?