Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size – from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of an eagle.
20/04/2025
In an increasingly fragmented society, even a bumper sticker can be a subtle form of moral positioning.
Warm air rises, but it also expands because air pressure decreases with height. The latter effect wins out and air becomes colder in the mountains.
The river’s health has been suffering, with a number of harrowing mass fish deaths events taking place in recent years.
Australia leads the world in community-based needle programs. Yet they’re not used in prisons – which are hotspots for hepatitis C infection.
150 years ago, the world agreed to a shared language of measurement. It still holds us together, even when everything else seems to pull us apart.
The exoplanet K2-18b could harbor a massive ocean, but scientists will need to study the planet more to see if it’s really likely to host life.
19/04/2025
Because the US government has rarely offered full-throated support for the arts, there’s a long tradition of innovation, adaptation and collective action among American artists.
18/04/2025
Around the world, 68 countries have banned the hitting of children in any form, including spanking. This movement began in 1979 with Sweden’s ban on all forms of physical punishment, including spanking in any setting, and including in the family…
If an engineer makes an improper assumption while designing something, sometimes the consequences are fatal. An engineering professor explains how to reduce risk.
Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These contaminants – arsenic, cadmium, lead, and others – may be invisible to the eye, but they threaten food safety and human health.
17/04/2025
As you experience or encounter new things, your brain must encode this information via the right neural networks at the right time.
