Our universe appears flat—but this observation still leaves plenty of options for its true shape. In fact, our cosmos could ...

Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, released 20 years ago this week, was an extraordinary cultural phenomenon. Honoured by the ...

Many medically important drugs originate from natural sources. Microorganisms produce these compounds using highly ...

For generations, African farmers have sustained their communities through systems grounded in observation, experimentation, ...

Researchers in Japan traced a hidden medieval solar storm using ancient tree rings and centuries-old sky observations. The team linked reports of eerie red auroras with spikes of carbon-14 trapped in ...

Treatments aim to bulk up failing hearts to restore their vigour – but can the field move on from past controversy?

Companies like Skanska and Cargill are utilizing AI to streamline processes, democratize safety knowledge, and support ...

Helen Pearson’s “Beyond Belief” profiles figures who propelled medicine and other fields toward evidence-based thinking.

The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has survived more than 4,500 years. Earthquakes have repeatedly shaken the region, ...

Against the backdrop of accelerated glacier melting caused by global warming, dynamic monitoring of glacial lake water quality has become an important topic in environmental science. There is a ...

Astrobiologists are raising concerns that humanity’s search for alien life may be limited by the very tools designed to find it.

The wall seems real. But what if the wall is not in the world? What if it is in the method? This essay is not an attempt to ...