2025-01-09

The Devastating Los Angeles Fires in Pictures

More than 130,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, with the fires—which are still uncontained—having been declared a major disaster by President Biden. [...]

2025-01-09

The Los Angeles Fires Will Put California’s New Insurance Rules to the Test

The state’s insurance industry was reformed in late 2024 to promote coverage in disaster-prone areas. Tens of billions in fire damage will stress-test the new regime. [...]

2025-01-09

This Is What The Los Angeles Wildfires Look Like From Space

The scope of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires comes into focus through smoke-filled satellite imagery from NASA, NOAA and ESA. [...]

2025-01-09

The best graphing calculators of 2025

We selected the best graphing calculators featuring options like rechargeable batteries, color displays, and more for your math and science classes. [...]

2025-01-09

Why solving crosswords is like a phase transition

German physicist and crossword fan realized the solving process resembled a type of "percolation problem." [...]

2025-01-09

These Newly Identified Cells Could Change the Face of Plastic Surgery

Cartilage cells that contain fat explain why some skeletal tissues are less rigid than others, and could one day be grown in labs to produce better materials for performing reconstructive surgeries an [...]

2025-01-09

Here’s what we know, and what we don’t, about the awful Palisades wildfire

"I think we’ve got more questions than answers at this point." [...]

2025-01-09

Coal likely to go away even without EPA’s power plant regulations

Set to be killed by Trump, the rules mostly lock in existing trends. [...]

2025-01-09

LLM-generated questions differ from human questions, study finds

Researchers from UC Berkeley, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah City for Science and Technology, and the University of Washington took a close look at how large language models (LLMs) create questions [...]