A bridge engineer explains what happened, and what needs to change
When the container ship MV Dali, 300 metres long and massing around 100,000 tonnes, lost…
Bridges can be protected from ship collisions – an expert on structures in disasters explains how
The MV Dali, a 984-foot, 100,000-ton cargo ship, rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge…
A cosmic ‘speed camera’ just revealed the staggering speed of neutron star jets in a world first
How fast can a neutron star drive powerful jets into space? The answer, it turns…
1 degree above absolute zero
For decades, the pursuit of quantum computing has struggled with the need for extremely low…
NASA’s mission to an ice-covered moon will contain a message between water worlds
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, headed to Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa in October 2024, will carry…
A human, environmental and economic emergency response to the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse
On March 26, the container ship Dali in Baltimore’s industrial harbour struck an interstate highway…
Instagram and Threads are limiting political content. This is terrible for democracy
Meta’s Instagram and Threads apps are “slowly” rolling out a change that will no longer…
DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means
In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish…
A rare condition makes other people’s faces look distorted. Why a new case is important
If you’ve seen portraits painted by Pablo Picasso or Francis Bacon, you might not be…
Why Ontario school boards are suing social media platforms for causing an attention crisis
Four of Ontario’s largest school boards have brought a lawsuit against four of the biggest…