Mpox commonly causes lesions that can blister and scarCDC/Associated Press/Alamy Mpox cases are surging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and several of its neighbouring countries. The DRC alone has reported more than 15,000 cases and more than 500...
Back in the early 2000s, when I was butting heads seemingly every week with people who believed the Apollo moon landings were faked, such individuals would pull out an argument they thought was their ace in the hole: If NASA’s...
August 30, 20244 min readBuy Experiences instead of Possessions to Build Social ConnectionShared experiences, more than material things, bring people togetherBy Amit Kumar The human being is a “social animal,” as Aristotle suggested. We have a fundamental need to belong....
Illustration of a swiftly rotating brown dwarfNASA/JPL-Caltech Dark matter-fuelled brown dwarfs could be lurking at the centres of galaxies. If astronomers manage to spot them, they could teach us about how dark matter interacts with regular matter. Brown dwarfs are...
An illustration of three of the four satellites that make up the Cluster mission to monitor Earth’s magnetic fieldESA – CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO A half-tonne satellite will be watched as it falls to Earth by scientists on a private...
The OceanXplorer team work together to tag a Greenland sharkMario Tadinac/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OceanXplorersNational GeographicDisney+ With the prominent X in the middle of its title, OceanXplorers sounds like something from the 1990s trend of making “extreme” versions of familiar things to draw...
Spectacled longbill nestThe Trustees of the Natural History Museum/Jonathan Jackson These elaborate constructions are just some of the birds’ nests found at the Natural History Museum in Tring, UK, one of the oldest and largest ornithological collections in the world,...
N.K. JemisinLaura Hanifin There’s power in threes. The rule of three, we call it in the writing world: repeat a word or phrase or plot element three times in order to give it meaning. Two repetitions isn’t enough to establish...
“There’s no moon, but we can see very well. The sky is full of stars.” The Milky Way in the Atacama desertAlamy Stock Photo Chapter One All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only...
Potato fibres can be made into soft balls that resemble cottonFibe Fabric made from waste potato plants could offer a more sustainable alternative to pure cotton, as pressure grows on the fashion industry to reduce its environmental impact. Potatoes pose...
