Science
Scientific discoveries and research
A possible first-ever Einstein probe observation of a black hole tearing apart a white dwarf
On July 2, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope detected an exceptionally bright X-ray source whose brightness varied rapidly during a routin...
Q&A: Expert discusses the 'gay voice' stereotype
Dr. Fabio Fasoli is an expert in social communication, with a specific focus on LGBTQIA+ and gender minorities. An aspect of his research that has attracted sig...
Moving beyond money to measure the true value of Earth science information
They're all around us: sensors and satellites, radars and drones. These tools form vast remote sensing networks that collect data on the climate, the ground, th...
Silent witnesses: Pets offer a fur-ensic tale
New research confirms the potential for police forensic investigators to carefully consider the presence of pets at crime scenes as a credible new avenue for fi...
When heat flows backwards: A neat solution for hydrodynamic heat transport
When we think about heat traveling through a material, we typically picture diffusive transport, a process that transfers heat from high-temperature to low-temp...
Football-sized fossil creature may have been one of the first land animals to eat plants
Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100...
Machine learning reveals hidden landscape of robust information storage
In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, researchers used machine learning to discover multiple new classes of two-dimensional memories, systems tha...
How your worldview can affect the Earth through three values
The ways people interact with and view nature speak volumes as to how Earth is treated, and the severity of environmental concerns rising makes what shapes peop...
Mauled by a bear, 27,500 years ago: What a lavish teen burial reveals
A teenager's skeleton lay supine in a shallow pit on a bed of red ocher, his remains adorned with several ivory pendants, four perforated antler batons, mammoth...
Plants and worms harnessed to improve sustainable urban drainage systems
A team of researchers has demonstrated how biological systems could transform the way sustainable urban drainage systems manage polluted soils, pointing to a fu...
Planting tree belts on wet farmland comes with an overlooked trade-off
A research team has conducted a study to examine how shelterbelts influence bird species diversity and composition in an agricultural wetland landscape on the w...
Fruit fly study reveals how mating triggers behavioral changes in females
Researchers from The Universities of Manchester and Birmingham have identified the exact nerve cells in the brain that drive important behavioral changes in fem...