Be brave like a tiger: Lunar New Year explained
"Everyone should be reminded to be brave like a tiger this year."
That's the sage advice of a young China studies scholar at The Australian...
Scientists find locations of ancient Maya sacred groves of cacao trees
For as much as modern society worships chocolate, cacao — the plant chocolate comes from — was believed to be even more divine to...
Tug of sun, moon could be driving tectonic plate motions on Earth
A new study suggests that imbalanced forces and torques in the Earth-moon-sun system are behind movement of tectonic plates.
The new analysis provides an alternative...
Economists forecast impact of inflation, interest rates and instability in 2022
In 2021, the United States faced several profound challenges: another year of a global pandemic, governmental instability and gridlock, supply-chain issues, high inflation, and...
Five trends that will reshape our lives in 2022 and beyond
Even a global pandemic cannot slow the acceleration of new technologies and evolving technologies that has become the disruptive norm of our lives over...
Scientists find a mysterious solar storm occurred 9,200 years ago
Through analyzes of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found evidence of an extreme...
Are there oceans on other worlds? We asked a NASA expert.
The story of oceans is the story of life.
Oceans define our home planet, covering the majority of Earth’s surface and driving the water...
Scientists find chemical leftovers from early Earth sitting near the core
Let’s take a journey into the depths of the Earth, down through the crust and mantle nearly to the core.
We’ll use seismic waves to...
Vesuvius will erupt again, luckily not now
Vesuvius is one of Europe’s most dangerous volcanoes.
More than three million people live in its immediate vicinity, and in historical and prehistoric times, there...
Earth’s insides are cooling faster than we thought, shows study
Researchers suspect that the Earth’s heat may dissipate sooner than previously thought.
The researchers have come to this conclusion after showing in the lab how...