SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

John “JJ” Joannopoulos, the Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics at MIT and director of the MIT...

A small and dim moon has been discovered in orbit around Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to 29. Many...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born.In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside the boundaries of conventional geometry. Mathematicians had been describing these...

Jonathan CoffeyBBC PanoramaBBCListen to Jonathan read this article.When it comes to the Lucy Letby case, there are two parallel universes. In one, the question of her guilt is settled. She is a monster who murdered seven babies and attempted...

The Moon’s light is refracted by Earth’s atmosphere in this April 13, 2025, photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited into a sunset 264 miles above the border between Bolivia and Brazil in South America. Understanding the Moon...

Sophia AllsoppBBC News, West of EnglandGloucestershire Community Rail PartnershipThe maps have been created with the help of residents through workshops run by Art Shape. Amy Iles, project manager at the organisation, said: "By using art to reflect personal experiences...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, the images still haunt us: entire neighborhoods underwater, families stranded on rooftops and a city brought to its knees.We study disaster planning at Texas A&M University...

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Victoria Gill, Kate Stephens and Gwyndaf HughesBBC News Science teamElisenda BallesteDr Carlos Preckler, from King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia, is leading this part of the research and will be trying to measure how almost a century of industrial...

If you asked someone what they expected to see during a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center, they would probably list things like astronauts, engineers, and maybe a spacecraft or two. It might be a surprise to learn you...