Two scientists have made a brave sacrifice in the name of public health. M. C. Jeffrey...
Through our eyes, the world is revealed. But can our eyes also reveal ourselves? In...
Sometimes our most precious cultural institutions fail to live up to their high educational and moral commitments and responsibilities. These... Read More
Recent news in the energy world has not been encouraging. Prices are rising rapidly due to a supply crunch coupled with blistering,... Read More
What is beauty? The poet John Keats, in his Ode on a Grecian Urn, responded with his enigmatic ‘“Beauty is truth, truth... Read More
Plants use a variety of mechanisms to communicate with other organisms, including one another. Volatile compounds can signal flowering and... Read More
Starting around 3,000 years ago, a wave of innovation began to sweep through human societies around the globe. For the next millennium the... Read More
African elephants have evolved towards tusklessness in an area where they were intensively hunted for ivory, finds a study of... Read More
The U.S. Covid-19 vaccine rollout is about to get a lot more complicated. When the shots arrived late last year, the message from health... Read More
Whereas many of the supermassive black holes at the cores of most galaxies are quiescent, some of them become active galactic... Read More
For a period of Earth's history, between roughly 2.5 to 4 billion years ago, our planet was a punching bag for asteroids. During this time,... Read More
To do their lab work, Laura Ross and her team must conduct an itty-bitty surgery. First, they dissect out the reproductive tissues of the... Read More
Not all stars are created equal. The heaviest main-sequence stars, with masses more than 10 times that of the Sun, are bright, hot, and blue,... Read More
In On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin draws a picture of the long sweep of evolution, from the beginning of life, playing out... Read More
While analyzing some of the world’s oldest coloured gemstones, researchers from the University of Waterloo discovered carbon residue... Read More
In pursuit of batteries that deliver more power and operate more safely, researchers are working to replace the liquids commonly used in... Read More
To borrow a line from the movie “Jurassic Park:” Dinosaurs do move in herds. And a new study shows that the prehistoric creatures... Read More
Though almost 190 million people in the United States are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, that’s less than 60% of the... Read More
Two scientists have made a brave sacrifice in the name of public health. M. C. Jeffrey...
Through our eyes, the world is revealed. But can our eyes also reveal ourselves? In...
