What Trump can’t stop: Renewable energy is growing and setting world records | Climate
In his disjointed speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Donald Trump once again lashed out against…
Rare SpaceX bet turns $1.1 billion fund into a retail magnet
(Bloomberg) — In the exclusive world of private-company ownership, Kevin Moss is a rare gatekeeper — offering everyday…
“Understand. Don’t Memorise”: Why Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman’s advice works better than cramming for exams
Richard Feynman | Image source: Caltech Digital Collections The night before an exam is rarely about learning. It…
250-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Origins of Our Unique Hearing : ScienceAlert
Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear…
Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations | America’s toxic trade
The Mexican government has announced it will pursue a sweeping array of tactics to combat industrial pollution, from…
A second home in space? This planet is amazingly similar to Earth
Around 146 light-years from Earth, a planet could be orbiting an alien star that is more similar to…
The infant universe’s “primordial soup” was actually soupy » MIT Physics
MIT physicists observed the first clear evidence that quarks create a wake as they speed through quark-gluon plasma,…
DNA helps solve the mystery of the Beachy Head Woman
In a quiet basement in southern England, a cardboard box containing the skeleton of a young woman remained…
Catch a falling star: cosmic dust may reveal how life began, and a Sydney lab is making it from scratch | Astronomy
How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a…
Our Entire Galaxy Appears to Be Embedded in a Colossal Sheet of Dark Matter
The Milky Way — and in fact our entire galactic neighborhood known as the Local Group — appear…
Silver coating makes lithium batteries much harder to crack
Small flaws hidden inside batteries are quietly limiting how fast they can charge and how safely they can…
Forgotten radio data is the key to finding new exoplanets, here’s proof
Astronomy produces far more data than scientists can immediately analyze. Much of it is stored, catalogued, and rarely…