The collapse is one of the most carefully documented demographic events in modern science, because Japan keeps detailed life-expectancy statistics for each of…
Of all the things a body weighing several tonnes might struggle to do, getting airborne sounds like it should be near the top of the list.
Stand at the edge of the ocean for a few seconds. A wave comes in. It curls, it crashes, it pushes a sheet of water across the sand and then retreats.
Open a calendar. Notice that you do not need a telescope, a clock, or an almanac to verify what a day is — the sun rises, the sun sets, and a day has elapsed.
In August 2017, the deep-sea drilling ship JOIDES Resolution dropped its drill string into the South Pacific approximately 1,500 kilometres east of Australia and began boring into the sediments at the bottom of the Tasman Sea.
It could be argued that a fitness wave that followed the 1964 Tokyo Olympics gave a Japanese clockmaker its opening.
Almost a quarter of the world reported feeling very or fairly lonely. The Meta-Gallup Global State of Social Connections survey (pulished in 2023) put the figure at 24% across 142 countries and areas.
SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq on Friday 12 June under the ticker SPCX, in what was, by the size of the raise, the largest initial public offering on record.
SpaceX's listing on the Nasdaq on Friday made Elon Musk the first person worth $1 trillion on paper.
Somewhere in a quiet research facility outside Tel Aviv, a Labrador retriever named Mars is being asked to do something a $100,000 mass-spectrometry machine…
It may come as no suprise to you that workplace engagement is in decline. According to Gallup's State of the Global Workplace 2026 report, the share of…
When SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq on Friday, Elon Musk appeared on a video feed from Starbase in Texas, projected into the exchange's headquarters.
SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker SPCX, raising about $75 billion in what is now the largest initial public offering in stock market history.
The figures come from two of the most carefully constructed peer-reviewed datasets in environmental science.
The tallest waterfall on Earth sits unseen on the seafloor between Iceland and Greenland, with no spray and no audible roar, and the water that pours over it moves not through air but through more water.
Sunlight falls through a collapsed ceiling and lands on a forest of trees more than 40 metres tall, growing on a floor that no daylight would otherwise reach.
