The Australian government is developing legislation that will ban children under 16 from social media. There has been a huge ...

We know that the Urban Heat Island Effect can make cities particularly vulnerable to extreme heat, but a new study uncovered something even more surprising: cities might actually be ab ...

The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking. Take gender, nationality or religion: these ...

The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking. Take gender, nationality or religion: these concepts no longer sit comfortably in the stiff linguistic ...

The Australian government is developing legislation that will ban children under 16 from social media. There has been a huge public debate about whether there is sufficient direct ...

As we look to transition to our electric future, researchers are still stumped about how to store the electricity generated by inconsistent renewable power sources like solar ...

There are cosmic events so powerful that they leave permanent marks on the fabric of the universe itself. Imagine two ...

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously – a ...

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously – a phenomenon so spectacular it can be seen from ...

(via Veritasium) Glass is one of the most important materials humans have ever made.

(via MinuteEarth) The Grand Canyon is super-wide and super-deep, which might make you think that the Colorado River, which ...

A genomic test developed at UC San Francisco to rapidly detect almost any kind of pathogen – virus, bacteria, fungus or ...