Vu-An Foster’s sunny Newark, N.J., apartment is lined with greenery. Potted plants cover every surface. Many of them came from a single seedling—one that a friend gifted her after she…
As Hurricane Rita bore down on the bayous of southeastern Texas in 2005, Caitlin Eaves’s family made the wrenching decision to evacuate and leave their longtime home to an uncertain…
A bulbous corpse found bobbing off a tiny island in the Azores is the heaviest bony fish ever measured. The record breaker is a bump-head sunfish (Mola alexandrini). Taller than…
In 2032, tech savvy Flynne Fisher helps her brother with a virtual reality game and ends up in a disturbing London 60 years later. William Gibson’s 2014 sci-fi thriller The…
Large Hadron Collider has helped determine the distribution of masses that the Higgs boson can have, a measure known as its width Physics 20 October 2022 By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan The…
Splitting data into a spectrum of colour packets has enabled a single computer chip to transmit a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fibre-optic cable Technology 20…
In the 15 months after the Woolsey fire in Los Angeles, mountain lions were more likely to cross busy roads, travel further and move around during the day, putting the…
For months, there was a fear among energy observers that 2022 would turn into a carbon bomb for the planet. Then, renewables galloped to the rescue. Global carbon dioxide emissions…
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political…
A medieval parchment from a monastery in Egypt has yielded a surprising treasure. Hidden beneath Christian texts, scholars have discovered what seems to be part of the long-lost star catalogue…