New York Times: The burning forests, grasslands, and peat fields in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine have been sending soot into the atmosphere for days, endangering the health and lives of people in huge areas of those countries. Now, as the New York Times‘s Michael Schwirtz reports, the health threat could be compounded as the fires reach areas that remain contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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