NEW MEXICO WEIRD
The Wet Beaver Wilderness in Coconino National Forest in Arizona is one of many designated wilderness areas in the U.S. Deborah Lee Soltesz – By Leisl Carr Childers, Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University and by Michael Childers, Associate Professor of History, Colorado …
President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Richard Garwin at the White House on 2016 Nov 22. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik – By Matthew Bunn, Professor of the Practice of Energy, National Security, and Foreign Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Published: 2025 …
Agricultural workers exposed to a hotter and drier climate are at an increased risk of kidney damage. George Rose/via Getty Images – By Katherine Ann James, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Published: 2025 Apr 25 – …
A Sandia materials scientist, Sadhvikas Addamane, gazes into a viewport of a molecular beam epitaxy reactor, which will be used to build photonic cooling plates. Craig Fritz / Sandia National Laboratories View 4 Images – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2025 Apr 13 – Lasers are …
Over 730,000 people visit Colorado National Monument each year. It was established in 1911 under the Antiquities Act. Gordon Leggett, CC BY-SA – By Monica Hubbard, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Boise State University And by Erika Allen Wolters, Assistant Professor …
Scientists have identified a mysterious “phantom chemical” that’s long been suspected to exist in treated drinking water in some regions. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2024 Nov 21 – Plumbed drinking water in developed countries is pretty clean, but invisible contaminants can still lurk. …
Much of the land near the atomic bomb’s birthplace was converted to recreational areas, but toxic waste remains. Water samples from Acid Canyon in Los Alamos, New Mexico, on 2024 Jul 22. Photograph: Michael Ketterer/AP– New Mexico – Tom Perkins Last modified on …
Smoke from the South Fork fire covers the Sun, casting an orange light across the Lincoln National Forest in Ruidoso, New Mexico, on Monday. Photograph: Kaylee Greenlee Beal/Reuters – New Mexico – At least one killed as residents of Ruidoso escape blazes which …
Images of the first atomic bomb test in 1945 in New Mexico. Photograph: AP – The ObserverArtificial intelligence (AI) – John Naughton – A new essay on the rise of superintelligent machines pivots from being a warning to humanity to a rallying cry …
Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre after it was recovered in 2017. Photograph: Robert Demers/AP – Jerry and Rita Alter, now deceased, are suspected of having stolen artworks in the 80s, including Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre – Edward Helmore Last modified on 2024 May 04 …
