Every year on 12 February, The Future Leadership Institute marks the birthday of Charles Darwin with a simple idea: stop for a moment, have a drink, and think about where we came […]
Every year on 12 February, The Future Leadership Institute marks the birthday of Charles Darwin with a simple idea: stop for a moment, have a drink, and think about where we came […]
More than a decade of exceptionally precise observations has revealed two very different magnetic fields on Vega, one of the best-known stars in the night sky. The discovery could change our understanding […]
Scientists at ETH Zurich have solved a geological mystery that has puzzled researchers for around half a century. Deep inside the Earth, seismic waves suddenly accelerate — and the explanation reveals that […]
Reducing the widening gap between rich and poor has become one of the defining challenges of our time. While governments are traditionally expected to address inequality through taxation and redistribution, companies also […]
An extraordinarily preserved fossil bird from Brazil has allowed scientists to reconstruct the brain of a bird that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The 80-million-year-old skull of Navaornis hestiae fills a crucial evolutionary […]
Physicists at the University of Cambridge have experimentally created the first two-dimensional “Bose glass” — a strange state of matter in which particles become trapped rather than spreading through the system. The […]
Dark matter appears to dominate the mass of the Universe, yet nobody knows what it is. Deep beneath South Dakota, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has completed its most sensitive search yet — and […]
Scientists led by the University of Oxford have created extraordinarily dense beams of matter and antimatter in the laboratory. Containing around 10 trillion electron-positron pairs, these artificial “fireballs” could allow researchers to […]
Electrons are normally imagined as particles travelling through a wire. But under the right conditions they can behave collectively like a liquid — complete with microscopic whirlpools. ETH Zurich researchers have now […]
Oxford scientists have observed an extraordinary effect at the atomic scale: the movement of ions can retain a “memory” of what happened moments earlier. The discovery challenges a simple assumption about how […]