Jade from Up and Atom explains the Curie temperature.

The world appears to be plagued by crises – at least according to the media. “The financial crisis, the European debt crisis, ...

Can light itself cast a shadow? It may sound like a philosophical riddle, but researchers have found that under certain ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed robotic trousers that enable people to walk more ...

Most people don’t enjoy getting shots for treatments or vaccines. So, researchers are working to create more medicines, such as those made from messenger RNA (mRNA), that can be sprayed and inhaled. A ...

The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking. Take gender, nationality or religion: these ...

The Australian government is developing legislation that will ban children under 16 from social media. There has been a huge ...

There are cosmic events so powerful that they leave permanent marks on the fabric of the universe itself. Imagine two ...

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously – a ...

(via Veritasium) Glass is one of the most important materials humans have ever made.

We know that the Urban Heat Island Effect can make cities particularly vulnerable to extreme heat, but a new study uncovered something even more surprising: cities might actually be ab ...

Sandy beaches are beloved recreational settings, and they are also one of the world’s most endangered ecosystems. Up to 70% ...