According to the International Council on Clean Transportation, as of early 2024, there are approximately 40 million electric vehicles (EVs) in operation worldwide. Among them, verified battery-relate ...

Hundreds of thousands of chemicals are manufactured by the chemical industry, which transforms raw materials – usually fossil fuels – into useful end products. Due to its size and its use ...

On their way into space, astronauts' bodies deteriorate dramatically in zero gravity. To address this problem and protect our pioneers in space, researchers are looking for realistic test models. This ...

In our current understanding of mathematics, space and time extend infinitely and are made of infinitely many points of size zero. But according to a small group of physicist ...

Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something’s wrong. It might help to know ...

The global race for satellite dominance is a tale of two continents. In the U.S., private innovation is propelling a new era of connectivity through vast constellations of low Earth orbit (LEO) satell ...

While we are captivated by a vivid sunset and breathtaking views, dogs have their noses to the ground, reading the odour stories left behind by other dogs and animals. The pile of ...

Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something’s wrong. It might help to know that this is a deep ...

While we are captivated by a vivid sunset and breathtaking views, dogs have their noses to the ground, reading the odour stories left behind by other dogs and animals. The pile of crinkling autumn le ...

Artificial intelligence is making its way into every corner of our world. But when leaders in the AI space raise concerns, it's helpful to know what they're worried about. Here's how AI ...

In the 2023 season, Major League Baseball (MLB) introduced the pitch clock, perhaps the biggest change to America's pastime in decades. No longer would pitchers be permitted to dawdle on the mound. No ...

What if time isn't fundamental at all? Physicist Carlo Rovelli reveals how modern physics, from relativity to quantum gravity, has gradually erased time from its equations. In it ...