High school students Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson did something in 2023 that most mathematicians had thought impossible: They discovered a way to prove Pythagoras’
Newly published research suggests that the first-ever image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is not an
Beaver, moose, maybe a polar bear – all distinctly Canadian, right? They’re certainly icons of the North American nation, but when it comes to evolutionary
Astronomers in China and Japan observed the appearance of a “guest star” in 1181 CE. It was a supernova and for the following 840 years
In the first assessment of its kind, nearly all of the world’s tree species have been added to the IUCN Red List, which acts as
Okay, we know that not all toilets are white – who remembers those avocado and salmon pink bathrooms suites of the UK 1970s? But the
New Zealand’s “pet cloud” has recently been spotted from high above Earth after returning to its favorite spot where it’s been seen time and time
Women continue to be massively underrepresented across fields in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). A damning new report from UNESCO and the G20 confirms
Forget pumpkin carving and trick or treating – the most important event of spooky season has just arrived, and it’s chock full of big wings,
We’ve all been there: You’re on a date with someone, it’s maybe the second or third time you’ve met up, and everything’s going well. Then,
Complementary studies by separate teams have explored the interactions between melting ice in the North Atlantic and the flow of a crucial ocean current. One
Sitting on a heavy wooden bench with torchlight illuminating the cold and breezy dungeon wasn’t what I thought I would be doing on a Tuesday
The Portal – the interactive art installation that connected New York City to Dublin earlier this year and was briefly shut down due to “inappropriate
On August 8, 1900, at the Second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, David Hilbert presented 10 of 23 as-yet unsolved problems that he believed
Objectively speaking, there is nothing intrinsically dangerous about darkness. Sure, you might bump into things a bit more if you’re not used to the surroundings,
The latest edition of the “fear study” shows that the US has become increasingly afraid and nervous over the past decade – especially when it
Menopause: it’s a natural part of aging that affects millions of people each year, and yet there’s still plenty that we don’t know about it.
