Category Science & Discovery

“This photo was taken at the MycoTile waste-processing space at the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute in Nairobi. The sacks are full of sugar-cane bagasse, a fibrous material that is left behind when the juice is extracted. Sugar-cane processing…

Stonehenge gets some well-deserved attention when it comes to British archeology. Between its age, altar stone’s epic journey, and potential origin as a community building initiative, it has a storied history. However, another site in southwest England called Flagstones might…

Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek use hundreds of billions of “parameters” — the adjustable knobs that determine connections among data and get tweaked during the training process. With…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Life with a dog is a matter of give and take. Especially when it comes to communication. With no common human–dog language, our ability to communicate relies on understanding and reading our pet, and vice versa.…

What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary in their properties, such as electrical conductivity, density, melting temperature or light-absorption spectra? Such questions exercised physicists greatly in the decades after Dmitri Mendeleev introduced…

Even for the world’s largest animals, “when you gotta go, you gotta go.” Whale’s volcanic poop offers up a treasure trove of biological information and nutrients for the ocean. Not to be left out, their urine also plays a critical…

Scientists protest in Washington square park in New York City on March 7, 2025. Climate scientist Tom Di Liberto had dreamed of working at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) since college. After more than a decade as a…

Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Xiongjie Deng, Eleanor Thomson, Göran Wallin, Erika Berenguer, Cécile A. J. Girardin, Imma Oliveras Menor, Terhi Riutta, Huanyuan Zhang-Zheng & Yadvinder Malhi Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Huanyuan…

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain A University of Oxford study has determined that the widely used tools available to businesses for assessing their biodiversity impacts depend on broad assumptions and can have large uncertainties that are poorly understood or communicated. If…