Tag: science

Auroras filled much of the world’s skies for several nights in mid-May as a historic geomagnetic storm coursed 100 kilometers above our heads. Being...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.America’s first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast in...

A group led by string theory veterans Burt Ovrut of the University of Pennsylvania and Andre Lukas of Oxford went further. They too started...

The rules for Toronto’s ravines are based on the idea that a species will develop traits specific to a location as they grow over...

Since the 2000s, cacao production has declined, due to plant diseases and falling local prices, causing many people to turn their cacao farms into...

A team of physicists has discovered that it’s possible to build a real, actual, physical warp drive and not break any known rules of...

By contrast, a heat pump works by circulating refrigerants and changing their pressure, and thus their temperature, both to grab thermal energy from outdoor...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Ever since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists have set them apart...

Since it was first identified in 1983, HIV has infected more than 85 million people and caused some 40 million deaths worldwide.While medication known...

A large, long-term trial of the weight-loss medication Wegovy (semaglutide) found that people tended to lose weight over the first 65 weeks on the...