The Sciences

Butterflies, however, beat the trend. Credit: Boris Smokrovic/Unsplash

How Cities Are Literally Keeping Animals From Making It Big

Harini Barath 06/06/2018

Animals in warmer places will benefit from being smaller...

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A Gas Banned by the Montreal Protocol Has Resurfaced in the Atmosphere

Sarah Iqbal 05/06/2018

Some place in east Asia is emitting trichlorofluoromethane –...

Michael Jackson performs the 'anti-gravity' tilt in the music video for 'Smooth Criminal'. Source: YouTube

Docs Say It’s Impossible to Pull off MJ’s ‘Smooth Criminal’ Tilt Without Help

Lakshmi Supriya 05/06/2018

Go easy, dancers. The 45º tilt is impossible to...

Montipora digitata, a.k.a. 'finger coral'. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

‘Coral Bleaching Event in 2016 Caused Severe Mortality in Gulf of Mannar’

Ravi Mishra 05/06/2018

With 117 coral species, the Gulf of Mannar is...

Like all crafts that have presented unique rewards to their practitioners, the hope is that young scientists will use the initial prompt to measure their own research against benefits to society to, in time, enjoy writing about human knowledge for its own sake. Credit: Annie Spratt/Unsplash

Success of New Scheme to Get Scientists to Write More Needs Community Effort

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/06/2018

Laudable as AWSAR's aims are, one of its stipulations...

Elon Musk. Credit: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo

Why Elon Musk Isn’t Right About Nanotechnology Being ‘BS’

Mark Lorch 03/06/2018

Nanotechnology isn't science fiction – you can find it...

How does our world work on a subatomic level? Credit: Varsha Y S, CC BY-SA

Standard Model – the Absolutely Amazing Theory of Almost Everything

Glenn Starkman 03/06/2018

Every attempt to overturn this theory to demonstrate in...