Science Unmasked

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous …

The animal world is incredibly colorful, and behind this color palette is a constant game of survival. Most …

For almost a century, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle has stood as one of the defining ideas of quantum physics: …

You’re neck-deep in IKEA assembly instructions. Furniture parts lie strewn across the floor. Your new purchase sits half-complete …

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practised by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia, and beyond as far …

When you picture sharks, you probably think of large, powerful predators cruising the open ocean. Species such as …

Quantum entanglement — once dismissed by Albert Einstein as “spooky action at a distance” — has long captured …

Plastic pollution is everywhere: in rivers and oceans, in the air and the mountains, even in our blood …

“This is a game changer.” That’s how Paul Scully, New South Wales Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, …

Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves …