Earth?s inner core is growing more on one side than the other…
Why is planet Earth not tipping over, as it core keeps growing on one side?
Why ?floating wind? is key to the energy transition and how to get it onto the sea quickly
Floating wind has several key advantages compared to traditional onshore or fixed-bottom wind energy parks.
Swimming gives your brain a boost ? but scientists don?t know yet why it?s better than other aerobic activities
For centuries, people have been in search of a fountain of youth. The benefits of swimming just might be the closest we can get to better brain health.
Fight for control threatens to destabilize and fragment the internet
Currently, the internet is facing twin dangers. On one side, power has been increasingly concentrated primarily in the hands of a few. Fragmentation is the other.
Remote connections? Detangling entanglement in quantum physics
Einstein called entanglement ?spooky action at a distance.? Beyond just building better quantum computers, understanding and harnessing entanglement is also useful in other ways.
Clever cockatoos in southern Sydney have learned to open kerb-side bins ? and it has global significance
To many of us familiar with the cleverness of cockatoos, it might come as no surprise they can learn by watching each other. So in case you aren?t as fascinated…
How a bee sees: tiny bumps on flower petals give them their intense colour ? and help them survive
Flowers most likely evolved bumpy surfaces to minimise light reflections, and maintain the colour saturation, intensity to entice pollinators like bees
Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s ? thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
By the 1800s, human activities were already dramatically increasing the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Burning more and more fossil fuels ? coal and eventually oil and gas ? added…
What will the EV battery of the future look like?
Lithium's high production cost requires new alternatives
AI spots shipwrecks from the ocean surface ? and even from the air
Leila Character, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts The big idea In collaboration with the United States Navy?s Underwater Archaeology Branch, I taught a computer how…