SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

At first glance, Harvard Forest seems like an ordinary woodland. Oak trees shade the terrain among small shrubs and other trees, mostly maple, birch and beech. Fallen leaves coat the ground below. What makes this 1,600-hectare patch of land...

Demand for copper is surging because of demand from new technologies, but suppliers are struggling to keep up, and they are likely to fall further behind in the coming years, resulting in shortfalls globally. Even...

If you gently fold a disc made of some flexible and possibly tasty material, what makes it stay folded?...

In the past few years, there has been a growing clamour from scientists, doctors and the media about ultra-processed...

In a post on its community blog today, Meta announced the timeline for the shutdown of Horizon Worlds for VR users. The Horizon...

The Perseverance rover has found precious stones inside Martian pebbles. These gem grains are made of a substance called...

Repeated head knocks cause long-term damage to the delicate blood-brain barrier, potentially driving chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative...

Despite Donald Trump’s relentless attacks on climate action, the “drill, baby, drill” president has given the green revolution a...

Physicists have solved a longstanding mystery around the process that creates volcanic lightning: when similar particles rub together, why...

MIT senior Srihitha Dasari never imagined she would be speaking in front of the United Nations about...