On Everest’s sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world’s highest mountain. Among those scaling the soaring Himalayan mountain this year was a team not aiming for the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) peak, but risking their own lives to bring […]
When it comes to “busting” cosmic ghosts, only the most extreme objects in the universe may be up to the task: neutron stars. Scientists have performed simulations of collisions between these ultradense and dead stars, showing that such powerful events may be able to briefly “trap” neutrinos, otherwise known as “ghost particles.” The discovery could […]
Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday removed language from a key policy statement qualifying the US banking system as “sound and resilient,” a phrase it had used since March 2023 to reassure the public that regional lending problems were contained. That same day, fresh turmoil at a New York regional bank offered a reminder that those […]