As surprising as it may sound, no one really knows what an electron is, and it is this fundamental question that has been the driving force for much of modern physics and eventually led to the development of quantum field theory.
To answer the…
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The End Is Not Near, But If An ‘Insect Apocalypse’ Ever Happens, How Would We Know?
Insects scuttle, chew and fly through the world around us. Humans rely on them to pollinate plants, prey on insects that we don’t get along with, and to be movers and shakers for Earth’s ecosystems. It’s hard to imagine a world without…
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George Monbiot Q + A – How rejuvenating nature could help fight climate change
Natural climate solutions let nature do the hard work in the fight against climate change by restoring habitats such as forests and wetlands. This could absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help biodiversity thrive. Stephen Woroniecki…
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Dallas City Council Votes to Remove Massive Confederate War Memorial
In a 11-4 vote, the City Council decided to remove the 65-foot-tall monument from its location in the heart of the city
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Scientific research will help to understand the origin of life in the universe
Until now, in the scientific community there has been the prevailing view that thermal processes associated exclusively with the combustion and high-temperature processing of organic raw materials such as oil, coal, wood, garbage, food, tobacco…
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Oldest Known Macroscopic Skeletal Organism Was Masquerading as Fossilized Feces
Some researchers initially dismissed the remains of Palaeopascichnus lineari as teeny turds from a bygone era
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1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion
This stripy toe sock appears to have warmed the foot of a tot in the late antiquity period
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Scientists tracking the ‘life signature’ of Britain
The British Geological Survey has just released a new interactive web tool that maps out the geographical variation in the isotope signatures of Britain.
This map, which includes strontium, oxygen and sulphur data, enables the determination of the…
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Italy’s oldest olive oil discovered in peculiar pot
Olive oil is a staple of Italian cuisine. It’s been that way for thousands of years. And new chemical analysis conducted on ancient pottery proves the liquid gold has existed in Italy hundreds of years longer than what anthropologists have…
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Earliest European evidence of lead pollution uncovered in the Balkans
New research from Northumbria University has revealed that metal-related pollution began in the Balkans more than 500 years before it appeared in western Europe, and persisted throughout the Dark Ages and Medieval Period, meaning the region…
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