Despite dominating the planet’s surface for millions of years, dinosaur diversity reached a dramatic conclusion at the end of the planet’s impact on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, about 66 million years ago. It is so swollen with data that it is hard to imagine any room for suspicion that this …
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Nature has a way of embarrassing our best technology. For decades, scientists have been trying to create the ultimate sound absorber – a carefully engineered material that can handle sound waves for stealth movement or smooth peace and quiet. It turns out, however, that the beloved ‘metastructure’ may already exist …
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The low and thick hanging clouds in our sky, reflecting sunlight back into space, are melting in thin air like the heat of the world. These losses will not only bring about more climate change than we expect, but new research suggests that it may also undermine the prospects for …
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