July 4, 2022

Parts of the world now have drought patterns that haven’t been seen in 1,200 years

Parts of Portugal and Spain are the driest they have been in a thousand years due to an atmospheric high-pressure

Physicists are startled by this magnetic material that ‘freezes’ when heated

When disordered magnetic materials are cooled to just the right temperature, something interesting happens. The spins of their atoms ‘freeze’

AI seems to be better at distributing wealth than humans are, study hints

Artificial intelligence (AI) can devise methods of wealth distribution that are more popular than systems designed by people, new research

The Large Hadron Collider is about to ramp up to unprecedented energy levels

Ten years after it discovered the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider is about to start smashing protons together at

Great white sharks are being scared from their habitat by just two predators

There is no sea creature whose name inspires terror – rightly or wrongly – as much as the great white

You’re probably better at science than you think, new ‘citizen science’ study reveals

Community science – also known as citizen science – has enormous appeal for researchers looking to collect larger datasets and

An ‘island’ of disgusting wet wipes changed the course of the Thames river in London

A “wet wipe island” the size of two tennis courts has formed in the Thames, causing the river as it

These 5 charts show what you can do right now to fight climate change

Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels requires reaching net zero emissions by the middle of this century.