Evan Bush

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Evan Bush

Each spring, billions of bogong moths fill southeast Australia’s skies. Fleeing the lowlands and trying to beat the heat, they fly roughly 600 miles to caves embedded in the Australian Alps. The moths emerge from their larval stage with the tools to make this journey, but no one knows how the 1-inch-long moths navigate their way to the caves. Scientists previously found that the moths could sense Earth’s magnetic field with an internal compass.

1 week ago | cnbc.com | Evan Bush

A sign of the National Institute of Health stands near an entrance to its campus on Feb. 10, 2025 in Bethesda, Maryland. Alex Wong | Getty ImagesA federal judge in Boston on Monday said the termination of National Institutes of Health grants for research on diversity-related topics by President Donald Trump's administration was "void and illegal," and accused the government of discriminating against racial minorities and LGBT people.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Evan Bush

The scientific journal Nature wants to show people the nitty gritty of academic publishing. In a Monday editorial, the journal announced it would include peer review files with the papers it publishes, offering access to once behind-the-scenes processes in which reviewers critique scientific papers and authors respond with changes. Publishing peer review files at Nature has been optional since 2020; starting Monday, it is now automatic.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Evan Bush

Canadian wildfire smoke is triggering air quality alerts across the U.S. Midwest and Northeast on Thursday, as the northern nation's boreal forests continue to burn at a rate not seen except for a historic season in 2023. Smoke from the fires, along with ozone from heat, raised air pollution levels in Minneapolis, Green Bay, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Pittsburgh, D.C., Philadelphia and New York, among other cities. The fire season is off to a roaring start in Canada.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Evan Bush

DAVENPORT, Iowa — The message at the Quad Cities National Weather Service, which keeps an eye on the flood-prone Mississippi River and the heart of Tornado Alley, is that everything is fine. Yes, two of the office’s three top positions are vacant. No, the office doesn’t have a hydrologist, despite its proximity to the mighty Mississippi, which flooded Davenport for 96 days in 2019.