SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Look to the eastern sky in the hour preceding dawn on May 14 to catch a rare sight, as the moon, Saturn and Mars form a cosmic triangle in the glow of the rising sun, while the ice giant...

MIT's Universal Learning is a new initiative from MIT Open Learning designed to prepare learners everywhere to...

Living by the sea in the tropics means being exposed to some of nature’s most powerful forces. Hurricanes can bring storm surges, flooding and destructive waves that threaten homes, infrastructure and livelihoods.For many communities, coral...

In 1986, an energy CEO heard a briefing about climate change and felt guilty that his company was building...

Using a new technique that can create vacancies at any site across a material and then shrink it to...

NASA will hold its 2026 Lunabotics Challenge Tuesday, May 19, to Thursday, May 21, at the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.   Links to view the Lunabotics competition live can be found on the agency’s Lunabotics page. The competition is slated...

The data centres powering the AI boom already use more electricity than some small countries, and the International Energy...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it...

Throw a pebble into a lake and it, obligingly, sinks. Smash particles together and they fall apart in certain...

A fetus doesn’t have to see a yawn to catch it. Mothers can spread yawns to their yet-to-be-born offspring during pregnancy, researchers report May 5 in Current Biology. Yawning is contagious among many social creatures, including humans, dogs, lions and parakeets. While the behavior is...