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The article focuses on the potential of solar farms, particularly in the United Arab Emirates, to create weather and induce rainstorms through the heat generated by dark solar panels. It study suggests that solar farms of realistic sizes could trigger updrafts, leading to increased rainfall and providing a sustainable water source for thousands of people, offering an alternative method for rain enhancement.

Sitting on an airplane preparing to take off from Dares Salaam, Tanzania, American microbiologist Thomas Butler had some time to reflect on his rising fortunes. Stowed in the plane's belly [...]

When Parisian scholar Denys de Sallo founded Journal des Scavans, the world's first scientific journal, he charged 5 sous for the inaugural issue in 1665. Apres de Sallo, le deluge: [...]

ABOARD THE ATLANTIS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC -- The dazzling red squid drifted into the submarine's spotlight like some psychedelic phantom, its supple tentacles pulsing against the cold, black sea. [...]

From 12 to 17 February, some 5400 people descended on Philadelphia for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, which publishes Science), celebrating its [...]

The article presents several scientific news. It discusses the significant challenges faced by the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP), including a rise in sexual harassment issues and cancellations of over half of the scheduled projects for the 2023–2024 season. It mentions the controversies surrounding Twitter, as changes made by Elon Musk, resulting in increased hate speech and misinformation, led many scientists to leave the platform.

The article focuses on the unveiling of the results of a comprehensive undersea mapping effort by the U.S., which could potentially expand its territory by adding one million square kilometers of sea floor, providing valuable geological and biological resources, particularly in the Arctic, and generating substantial scientific insights into deep-sea habitats, geological evolution, tsunami risks, and seafloor mineral deposits.

The United States has completed a two-decade-long undersea mapping effort that has resulted in the discovery of 1 million square kilometers of sea floor, which is twice the size of California. This mapping effort has allowed the U.S. to claim valuable geological and biological resources, particularly in the Arctic, and has also provided a wealth of seafloor data that is fueling scientific advances. The impetus for this mapping effort came from the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which allows coastal nations to claim sea floor outside of their exclusive economic zone if they can demonstrate that it is a natural prolongation of their continental shelf. The U.S. claims are fairly conservative and are not likely to draw fierce objections, but the Senate has not ratified the Law of the Sea, so the U.S. has not submitted its maps to the U.N. commission for evaluation. The data from this mapping effort has been used for various research purposes, including identifying deep-sea habitats, studying the geologic evolution of ocean basins, and identifying areas at risk of producing submarine mudslides. [Extracted from the article]

Early this month, one of the world's most powerful ice breakers reached the U+S. research station at McMurdo Bay after smashing its way through the Antarctic ice pack. It's a [...]

STOLLSTEIMER CREEK, COLORADO -- 'Don't be a pin-headed snarf.... Read the river!' Dave Rosgen booms as he sloshes through shin-deep water, a swaying surveying rod clutched in one hand and [...]

When the Scripps Institution of Oceanography threw itself a 100th birthday bash last September, everyone from the Queen of England to Hollywood legend Paul Newman sent best wishes to one [...]

As a doctoral student in ecology 3 decades ago, Paul Gilman learned all about environmental stress. Now, as head of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) research office, he's trying to [...]

The satellite photos showed unmistakable signs of fortified underground bunkers. U.S. intelligence officials warned that workers would soon be churning out weapons of mass destruction within the maze of tunnels. [...]

Daniel Pauly still remembers his youthful encounter 30 years ago with what he calls 'the living papers.' A graduate student in Germany, Pauly watched the field's royalty with awe at [...]

The bark proved worse than the bite. After months of warning that government research spending could become a casualty of the war against terrorism, the Bush Administration this week unveiled [...]

A budget surplus and a fall election invigorate the traditional practice of channeling money to specific universities A researcher who wins a multimillion-dollar federal grant can usually recall in excruciating […]

Scientists have traced the origins of a vast hypoxic region in the gulf to inland fertilizer use; now officials must decide what to do, LAFITTE, LOUISIANA--Albert Darda, captain of the shrimp trawler Misty Morn, has never met Iowa farmer Bryan Sievers, who lives more than 1600 kilometers up the Mississippi River from this marsh-fringed [...]

When former marine ecologist Ted Tutschulte got the news, he could hardly believe it. Thirty years ago, as a graduate student, he had taken a deep breath, dived into the [...]

The article reports that Related Group, a U.S. real estate developer, has discovered ancient human remains and one million artifacts while excavating a waterfront lot in Miami's Tequesta settlement. It mentions that the the company, which has already spent on the dig, is now facing pressure from archaeologists, indigenous people, and preservation advocates to transfer the collection to a university or museum and finance further study and public sharing of the finds.

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FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA--It's hard to resist comparing forest ecologist Wally Covington to the old-growth ponderosa pines that tower above this bustling mountain town. Both are tall and burly, with rugged skins [...]

A University of Connecticut graduate student has become the first researcher charged under new antiterrorism laws with mishandling a potential bioterror agent. Federal prosecutors last week charged Tomas Foral, 26, [...]

PARIS--A volcano 2500 meters high and 20 kilometers across would be a major terrestrial landmark. But nobody knew this lava behemoth, its flanks teeming with new and unusual sea life, [...]

Materials scientist Shuji Nakamura is getting an unpleasant lesson in the take-no-prisoners style of the U.S. legal system. A federal judge last month accused the prominent University of California, Santa [...]

Richard Klausner this month traded his biomedical research battleship for a speedboat, and he's looking forward to feeling the spray on his face. His transition from the $3.7 billion National [...]

U.S. biomedical research spending appears headed for another big boost. Congress last week took the first step toward finalizing a 2002 budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) when [...]

Through misjudgment or design, worthy theories and discoveries have failed to win the Nobel stamp of greatness The caller to a radio talk show a few years ago was irate. [...]

When computer scientist Jennifer Weller took a job at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute in Blacksburg last year, she was eager to start work on new 'open source' genome-sifting software that [...]

Twenty years ago, Congress slipped into a budget bill a small sum of money for research buildings at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and Columbia University in New [...]

Some scientists worry that eye-catching efforts to rescue stranded marine mammals may detract from less glamorous--and smellier--research ASSATEAGUE ISLAND, VIRGINIA--The baby whale wasn't fast enough to escape the ship's giant [...]

In a case that could create new liabilities for U.S. research conducted abroad, 30 Nigerian families have sued pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., alleging that the company unethically tested an antibiotic [...]

Oceanographers now have something else to worry about besides getting grants and battling rough seas: pirates. Two U.S. research institutions have confirmed to Science that they are stepping up security [...]

Researchers and doctors in poorer nations will get free or low-priced electronic access to nearly 1000 biomedical journals. The six largest commercial journal publishers agreed this week to open their [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA--A jellyfish invasion might sound like the plot of a bad movie on late-night TV. But the pulsing, tentacled predators were a star attraction at a marine science [...]

U.S. scientists anxious about next year's federal research budget got some good news last week. Several congressional panels approved preliminary 2002 spending bills that restore research programs targeted for cuts [...]

Add science policy wonks to the list of those hoping to bring extinct species back from the dead. Academics, science lobbyists, and government officials gathered in Washington last week to [...]

U.S. scientists are asking the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pour $281 million into a hole in the ground. A new research coalition last week submitted a proposal to NSF [...]