Science
Scientific discoveries and research
Pubs are far more valuable to society than the tax they pay
English pubs will receive a 15% discount on their business rates from April this year. The government deal, which also applies to music venues, follows a backla...
King's Trough: How a shifting plate boundary and hot mantle material shaped an Atlantic mega-canyon
The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor. Its formation was long thought to...
Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds
Biologists have uncovered a new mode of communication inside cells that helps bacterial pathogens learn how to evade drugs. Their findings, published in the jou...
2D discrete time crystals realized on a quantum computer for the first time
Physical systems become inherently more complicated and difficult to produce in a lab as the number of dimensions they exist in increases—even more so in quantu...
Climate change is reshaping how companies do business
Climate change is not only disrupting supply chains and asset values, it is also quietly reshaping companies' choice of business partners. New research based on...
Cleaner ship fuel changed clouds, but not their climate balance
To reduce air pollution associated with ocean transport, the International Maritime Organization tightened restrictions on sulfur content in ship fuel, resultin...
Map shows the far-flung places Colorado's wolves traveled in the past month
At least one of Colorado's collared wolves roamed widely across southwestern Colorado in the last month, a new map of wolf locations released by Colorado Parks...
Burning satellites in the stratosphere: Emerging questions for climate
The sky is getting crowded. In the last few years, the number of satellite launches has increased by an order of magnitude as mega-constellations of internet-po...
Men are embracing beauty culture—many of them just refuse to call it that
Just weeks after the premiere of popular gay hockey romance series "Heated Rivalry," star Hudson Williams' extensive skincare routine has gone viral. In a now-v...
Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not
Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single,...
AI enables a who's who of brown bears in Alaska
A team of scientists from EPFL and Alaska Pacific University has developed an AI program that can recognize individual bears in the wild, despite the substantia...
Submarine mountains and long-distance waves stir the deepest parts of the ocean
When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It's easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely sta...