An etching of two men looking and gesturing at the sky, with astronomical instruments in the foreground.Metropolitan Museum of ArtOn August 12, Europe – in particular the Iberian peninsula – will look to the sky to witness a historic solar
If you want to find water on the moon, look for the vibrations. A new study says that seismic waves—the same kind of vibrations measured during earthquakes—could be used to locate and map ice buried beneath the lunar surface. The team’s fin…
A recent paper tackled a mystery that has puzzled scientists for years; how the world’s only winged mammals carry viruses that cause severe disease while rarely becoming seriously ill themselves?
People with ‘problematic’ levels of Internet use report being more stressed out, having worse moods, and are less likely to do things like go ourside for recreation than those who regard things like social media as a pleasant diversion.They…
Women reported feeling more attached to an animal and receiving more socio-emotional support from it - but that doesn't mean there was improved overall wellbeing.
Image from DAVID GRAY/Contributor via Getty Images via The ConversationAustralian universities will have to adopt their own definitions of racism as of next year. This includes antisemitism, Islamophobia and racism towards First Nations peo…
It’s almost midnight when the phone buzzes – a client text, a comment that needs a reply, a trend that will be stale by morning. For the people who run brand accounts on social media, the workday never really ends. We’re marketing researche…
Scott Olson/Getty Images via The ConversationThe United States is one of only a handful of countries that allows companies to hold patents on plant varieties. As a result, a small number of corporations can – and do – suppress competition i…
What the collapse of corporate media means for the publicShutterstockThe days of tuning in to the six o'clock news are long over. News audiences are increasingly fragmented, and more than half of us now get our news from social media. This
After an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, now called the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction, fish in the fossil record went dark for about 10,000,000 years. When they have been found again, any species that look differe…
Laser-assisted electron scattering (LAES) is a tool for understanding how electrons interact with matter under the influence of strong fields. When electrons are fired at atoms or molecules, they are scattered in all directions; the presenc…
The sentencing of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison on February 8 on charges of sedition and collusion with foreign forces prompted international outrage. Lai founded the now shuttered pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper…