A pink diamond just sold for over US$ 14 million – no wonder, when you look at the mysteries behind their chemistry
Diamonds might be forever but that doesn’t stop them being bought and sold. One stone…
Light-powered reactions could make the chemical manufacturing industry more energy-efficient
Manufactured chemicals and materials are necessary for practically every aspect of daily life, from life-saving…
Migrating bogong moths use the stars and Earth’s magnetic field to find ancestral summer caves each year
It’s a warm January summer afternoon, and as I traverse the flower-strewn western slopes of…
Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show how generative AI can be weaponized
The AI chatbot Grok spent one day in May 2025 spreading debunked conspiracy theories about…
50 years after ‘Jaws,’ researchers have retired the man-eater myth and revealed more about sharks’ amazing biology
The summer of 1975 was the summer of “Jaws.” The movie was adapted from a…
How a single movie changed our perception of white sharks forever
It’s been 50 years since Steven Spielberg’s movie Jaws first cast a terrifying shadow across…
Can a foreign government hack WhatsApp? A cybersecurity expert explains how that might work
Earlier today, Iranian officials urged the country’s citizens to remove the messaging platform WhatsApp from…
We design cities and buildings for earthquakes and floods — we need to do the same for wildfires
We live in an age of increasing wildfire disasters because more of us are living…
Making facsimiles of the dead raises ethical quandaries
Christopher Pelkey was shot and killed in a road range incident in 2021. On May…
What could have caused the Air India crash? An expert examines the proposed failure scenarios
The recent crash of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Ahmedabad has prompted widespread…