Liam Cassidy, The University of Melbourne; Andrew King, The University of Melbourne; Josephine Brown, The University of Melbourne, and Tilo Ziehn, CSIRO Humanity’s emissions of greenhouse gases have caused rapid global warming at a rate unprecedented in at least the past 2,000…
Michael Childress, Clemson University Armed with scrub brushes, young scuba divers took to the waters of Florida’s Alligator Reef in late July to try to help corals struggling to survive 2023’s extraordinary…
William J. Kinsella, North Carolina State University Christopher Nolan’s film “Oppenheimer” has focused new attention on the legacies of the Manhattan Project – the World War II program to develop nuclear weapons.…
Riley Post, University of Iowa The arduous task of cleaning up from catastrophic flooding is underway across the Northeast after storms stretched the region’s flood control systems nearly to the breaking point.…
Stefan Lovgren, University of Nevada, Reno Rivers have been the lifeblood of human civilization throughout history, and yet we know surprisingly little about what lives in many of them – including the…
Emma Shie Nuss, University of Washington; Audrey Casper, University of Washington; Christine M. Baker, North Carolina State University; Melissa Moulton, University of Washington, and Walter Torres, University of Washington If you’ve ever…
Paul Bierman, University of Vermont and Tammy Rittenour, Utah State University About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s northwest…
Alun Hubbard, University of Tromsø I’m striding along the steep bank of a raging white-water torrent, and even though the canyon is only about the width of a highway, the river’s flow…
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is a ‘dirty bomb’ waiting to happen – a nuclear expert explains
Tilman Ruff, The University of Melbourne After the explosion at the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine last month, many Ukrainians feared the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant could be next. These concerns have been…
Alun Hubbard, University of Tromsø I’m striding along the steep bank of a raging white-water torrent, and even though the canyon is only about the width of a highway, the river’s flow…
Megan Keller, Cornell University and Tobias Dörr, Cornell University In 1857, a young pediatrician named Theodor Escherich discovered what may very well be the most well-studied organism today. The rod-shaped bacterium named…