US police forces have been turning to technology to track down Black Lives Matter protestors. Content from social media platforms and affiliated sites has been instrumental in the authorities being able to identify protestors based on photos of their faces,Continue Reading
Stronger together. Shutterstock Science is at the heart of the fight against COVID-19. While some scientists are busy developing drugs, vaccines and monitoring changes in the virus’s genetic material, others are studying the spread of the virus, informing policies thatContinue Reading
Khakimullin Aleksandr/Shutterstock How much do clouds weigh? – Torben, aged 10, London, UK We see clouds often: fluffy clouds on a nice summer’s day, towering thunderstorms, wispy high clouds or even grey clouds that cover the whole sky for days.Continue Reading
This image of the NGC 1398 galaxy, which is located in the Fornax cluster, was taken with the Dark Energy Camera. Dark Energy Survey/Flickr, CC BY-SA Dark energy is one of the greatest mysteries in science today. We know veryContinue Reading
Jag_cz/Shuttestock Microbes are the truly dominant group of lifeforms. These invisible pieces of biogenic matter have been running Earth’s affairs for billions of years. Plants and animals popped up as the by-products of microbial mergers relatively recently in our planet’sContinue Reading
St Helena, where Earth's magnetic field behaves strangely. Umomos/Shutterstock Deep inside the Earth, liquid iron is flowing and generating the Earth’s magnetic field, which protects our atmosphere and satellites against harmful radiation from the Sun. This field changes over time,Continue Reading
Rocket carrying the Hope probe. MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES HAND/EPA The United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched its Mars mission dubbed “Al Amal”, or “Hope”, from the Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan on July 20. This is the first spaceContinue Reading
AI has its limitations in a crisis. Shutterstock It should have been artificial intelligence’s moment in the sun. With billions of dollars of investment in recent years, AI has been touted as a solution to every conceivable problem. So whenContinue Reading
Some species can do well in the face of extreme hardship. George Burba/Shutterstock Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth. The world was plunged into darkness, killing the dinosaurs and over 90% of all species alive. Today, everyContinue Reading
It's long been a mystery how fast the Earth's magnetic field changes. Andrey VP/Shutterstock The Earth’s magnetic field, generated 3,000km below our feet in the liquid iron core, is crucially important to life on our planet. It extends out intoContinue Reading
