Credit: Johnson Martin / Unsplash If you’ve ever gone to look up a quick fact and just kept scrolling from one article (or page, or video), to another, to another – then you know the feeling of “going down the rabbit hole”. This experience of curiosity-driven web browsing has become synonymous with the free, user-generated … Read more
TheIn Spain, more than 200 people have been killed after the deadliest floods in the country’s modern history. Australia is warming faster than the global average, which means more extreme heat events, longer fire seasons, increasingly intense downpours and rising sea levels. And globally, this year is very likely to be the hottest on record, … Read more
Future scientist disguised as a transformer at the 9th Annual Spooky Mad Science Expo in Alexandria, Virginia. (Photo: Julie Gardner) Alexandria, Virginia—Saturday, October 19, 2024, Patrick Henry Recreation Center waited for the 9th anniversary The thrilling mad science exhibit that brought together families, children and a range of organizations for a Halloween themed day of … Read more
Open this photo in the gallery: Scientists work on part of the ATLAS mass detector at the Large Hadron Collider during its initial installation in 2007.Claudia Marcelloni/Max Brice Lawrence M. Krauss, a theoretical physicist, is president of the Origins Project Foundation and host of the The Origins Podcast. His most recent book is The Edge … Read more
Ministers are preparing to introduce legislation that will allow the growing of genetically modified crops in England and Wales. But the new legislation will not cover the use of this technology to create farm animals that have increased disease resistance or lower carbon footprints. The decision has shocked some senior scientists, who had expected both … Read more