Several Pacific nations reportedly want to defer action on the draft agreement or have it amended. Henry Puna (2nd R), secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum, holds a meeting with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi (3rd L) in Fiji’s capital city of …
Predicted wind gusts could cause fire to jump containment lines as crews in New Mexico try to stop growth of US’s biggest wildfire. Crews in northern New Mexico cut and clear containment lines around nearly half of the perimeter of the nation’s largest …
The Afreda S6’s front linkage allows the two front wheels to tilt into corners, and to independently move straight up and down by up to 11 inches. Afreda – By Ben Coxworth 2022 May 18 – Although electric scooters are becoming extremely popular, the …
Members celebrate the restoration of lands they had stewarded for thousands of years. Salish Pend d’Oreille elder Stephen Small Salmon expressed hope that the tribes would reclaim Big Medicine, a rare white calf born in 1933. His taxidermied body is at the Montana …
Researchers at the QuTech collaboration have managed to teleport quantum information between two non-adjacent nodes for the first time. Marieke de Lorijn for QuTech – By Michael Irving 2022 May 26 – Scientists in the Netherlands have made a major step towards quantum computer …
Researchers estimate the city, which features the Mayan Puuc style of architecture, to have been occupied from 600 to 900 AD. The ruins of a Mayan site, called Xiol, have been uncovered on a construction site near Mérida, México. Photograph: Lorenzo Hernández/Reuters – …
Starliner parachutes down in New Mexico. Boeing – By David Szondy 2022 May 25 – Boeing’s Starliner passenger spacecraft has successfully returned to Earth. At 4:49 pm MDT, the uncrewed capsule landed at the US Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico at …
Monkeypox causes lesions that resemble pus-filled blisters, which eventually scab over. CDC/Getty Images – By Rodney E. Rohde, Regents’ Professor of Clinical Laboratory Science, Texas State University Published: 2022 May 20 – On 2022 May 18, Massachusetts health officials and the Centers for …
These tiny crab robots can be remote controlled by using heat to deform shape-memory alloys. Northwestern University – By Loz Blain 2022 May 25 – Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois have demonstrated the world’s smallest remote-controlled walking robot, at just half a millimeter …
“Sowing water” in this mountainous region has been crucial for people, crops, and biodiversity for more than a millennium. Antonio Ortega García adjusts slabs of stone, divering water from the Río Grande (foreground) to an acequia. All Photos by Kira Walker for Atlas …
