Real Clear Science

Cameron English, ACSH

Gone are the days when science journals focused on science. If you open a peer-reviewed publication in 2024, you're just as likely to read an ill-informed opinion piece...

Sonja Anderson, Sonian

Without breaking ground, archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an "anomaly" beneath a royal graveyard near Giza's 4,500-year-old

Matthew Hutson, Nature

David Bau is very familiar with the idea that computer systems are becoming so complicated it's hard to keep track of how they operate. "I spent 20 years as a software...

John Horgan, Cross-Check

For decades, I've bashed gene-whiz science, which traces complex traits and disorders—high intelligence, aggression, alcoholism, schizophrenia, sexual orientation,...

Lasse Biørnstad, SciNor

What is air? We usually think of two components when we talk about the atmosphere that surrounds us.

Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta

In an old Indian parable, six blind men each touch a different part of an elephant. They disagree about what the elephant must look like: Is it smooth or rough? Is...

Evrim Yazgin, Cosmos

It is well-known that orangutans are incredibly intelligent. Now scientists are beginning to unlock the mysteries of these remarkable great apes' communication.

Micah Hanks, The Debrief

In 1587, John White and a group of approximately 115 English settlers landed on Roanoke Island off the coast of present-day North Carolina. The colony they sought to...

Tom Howarth, Science Focus

On 8 March 2024, Florida resident Alejandro Otero was minding his own business when a metal object weighing 0.7kg quite literally fell from the sky and tore...

Danielle Gerhard, The Scientist

In the dark, frigid months of winter, painted turtle hatchlings hunker down in shallow, icy nests where they enter a state of

Sophie Hardach, BBC

In January 2024, Anna Wilson was sitting aboard a Gulfstream IV jet, observing a deceptively calm-looking sea of white clouds over the...

Linkoping Univ

A battery made from zinc and lignin that can be used over 8000 times. This has been developed by researchers at Linköping University with a vision to provide a cheap and...

MIT

Astronomers at MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and elsewhere have discovered a huge, fluffy oddball of a planet orbiting a distant star in our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery,...

University of Nottingham

A new technique for 3D printing medication has enabled the printing of multiple drugs in a single tablet, paving the way for personalised pills that can...

University of Cambridge

Researchers have found that 2023 was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere in the past two thousand years, almost four degrees warmer than the coldest summer...