Science

A poetry collection, a coming-of-age novel and a history of deep sea exploration are unlikely to be found in the same section of your favorite bookstore. But they all have enough in common to be […]

The symbolic “Doomsday Clock” was held at 90 seconds to midnight Tuesday, reflecting existential threats to humanity posed by potential nuclear escalation from the war in Ukraine and the multiplying impacts of the climate crisis […]

There are fields of scientific research that involve neither vast cosmic phenomena nor extremely cute animals, but those are topics of high salience in Saturday Citations, and this week is no exception. And we’ll probably […]

Dr. Mark Lindsay was 5 years old when he first learned that tree trunks were brown.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

The Dark Energy Survey took an entire decade to produce a value for the cosmological constant—and it’s smaller than you might think! There were other stories as well, including one about primeval black holes, and […]

Millions of people have experienced sexual violence and abuse in England and Wales, but many do not know where to go, or who to turn to afterward. The shame felt by victims and survivors of […]

It’s the futuristic year 2024! Where is the power loom that natural philosophers have been promising me? What’s that? Edmund Cartwright already made one? In 1785? And it revolutionized industrial weaving? Sorry, it’s been so […]

The UK government said on Wednesday it had dropped its plan to start selling in imperial measures after a consultation revealed 99 percent support for keeping the metric system.This article is brought to you by […]

Emerging from woods in a quiet corner of rural England, a small band of anti-foxhunting campaigners have just one goal: to confuse the pack of dogs chasing a fox and prevent its death.This article is […]

We’re all familiar with the jolly, white-haired and bearded overweight man who sneaks down chimneys on Christmas Eve delivering presents to children. But where did this come from?This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.