Research, Space & Discovery
Once used to defend Britain's shores against Napoleonic France, the Ordnance Survey's detailed maps are now essential for tracking and adapting to climate change.
Matt Shipman, NC StateAn international study finds that older adults who have strong beliefs about how other seniors should behave also report having more memory problems themselves. The...
The wait is over. Today's total solar eclipse will sweep across Greenland, Iceland and Spain. Here's where to find timings, livestreams, safety advice and live coverage.
Scientists probing life’s deepest origins have uncovered evidence that the first free-living cells may have emerged not once, but twice. The findings suggest a striking possibility: life may share one...
Western Iceland and northern Spain are among the few Northern Hemisphere locations experiencing a total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026.
Invented languages tend to be the stuff of fantasy or science fiction worlds. But as a child, you may have made one up yourself.
Editorial, Nature MedA central tenet of aging research is that common mechanisms contribute to pathology across many different types of age-related diseases and conditions — the so-called...
Ordinary WiFi networks could quietly become powerful surveillance tools, allowing people to be identified without cameras, special sensors, or even carrying a connected device. Researchers showed that...
Sorry, North America. After winning the cosmic lottery with a pair of coast-to-coast total solar eclipses, now it's Europe's turn.
Matt Fuchs, Prime FactorsWe're often told walking is good for you. Because it is.But a related, rarely asked question is: "How good?"The answer depends on your current...
Daniel Boffey, The GuardianA growing global trade in mummified human remains has been described by academics as "a real mummy's curse" that poses a serious health risk to its enthusiasts...
Gayoung Lee, GizSome laws of physics are so fundamental that they've served as the baseline for science for centuries. But with technological advancements, physicists can—albeit...
Julia Vaz, Science MagazineFor more than half a century, physicists have searched for one of the strangest particles predicted by modern theory. It would be made almost entirely of gluons,...
Susan Goldhaber, ACSHAs I previouslywrote, Legionnaires' Disease was first identified...
Amy McDermott, Proceed of the National Acad of SciencesMartha Robbins arrived in the mountains of Uganda in 1998. A behavioral ecologist, she came to study a troop of gorillas in the misty...
Matthew Williams, Universe TodayWelcome back to our series on Interstellar Travel, where we examine concepts that have been proposed since the dawn of the Space Age. In our previous...
M.P. Reddy, Ph.D., RCScienceI nearly failed organic chemistry.That is not how these essays usually open, but it is the truest place...
Esra Öz, Sci AlertA filter used to clear excess fats from the blood of people with cardiovascular disease may also trap much smaller stowaways: some persistent
Jessica Riskin, iaiWe often see evolutionary theory as the enemy of religion. But in Darwin's day, many scientists thought otherwise. Neo-Darwinism, today championed by atheists like...
Mark Thompson, Universe TodayThere is a question that often comes up at every public talk I do, and I have never had a good answer to it, well not an entirely confident one. What's inside a...