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What makes three the perfect blade count for wind turbines? Why not two for simplicity, or five to catch more wind? The answer connects physics,

These innovative pavings convert the kinetic energy of footsteps into clean electric energy.

Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see 46.1 billion light-years away in all directions. Doesn't that violate...something?

Our Earth-bound definitions of life could leave us blind to the Universe’s strangest forms.

Progress is happening all over the world. I couldn’t fit the entire world into my studio though, so built a model. See how I did that with a Nebula subscript...

I love energy, you love energy, EVERYONE loves energy. You use it to charge your car, run your dishwasher — and don’t forget about your air conditioner. What would we do without energy? Recently…

The feathers can emit two frequencies of laser light from multiple regions across their colored eyespots.

Could cosmic silence be a survival strategy?

ARCHIVE // Sans programme spatial, pas de GPS, de détection précoce des cancers, de panneaux solaires, ni de couches pour bébé, d’oreillers à mémoire de forme ou de nourriture lyophilisée. Mais aujourd’hui, l’innovation spatiale est-elle à la hauteur du défi climatique ? Dans le numéro d'hiver 2024 de son magazine, Usbek & Rica faisait un focus sur dix programmes de recherche qui contribuent à rendre nos modes de vie plus écologiques.

How 1920s experiments on fruit flies and a secretive weapons testing programme made nuclear energy unaffordable

It’s the country’s first one-year emissions decline that’s not linked to economic issues.

Plant-based protein sources still have a lower footprint than the lowest-impact meat products.

Society is once again left holding the bag

Those epic battle scenes in space are awesome—and physically impossible. But hey, it’s more fun this way!

Basic research often pays huge dividends—but that’s not why we do it.

If you don’t, your flight won’t crash, but ignoring airplane mode uses up your battery and annoys the pilot.

In around 7 billion years, we expect the Sun to run out of fuel, dying in a planetary nebula/white dwarf combination. Is that for certain?

Our scientific instruments are constantly improving, revealing nature's workings as never before. Without them, we'll remain in the dark.

From space, scientists can track everything from sea levels or greenhouse gases to infectious bacteria or water stored underground.

Despite California being the poster child of high prices, the data suggests no.

Scientists find a way to look for alien life that doesn’t need elaborate equipment.

Steel pipes which were once buried under a gold mine are used as sensors to catch cosmic rays.

The International Space Station is an engineering feat that has led to countless scientific discoveries. Like the thousands of satellites in orbit, it manages to stay up in the atmosphere.

Science often accommodates audacious proposals.

Many mavericks look to Einstein as a unique figure, whose lone genius revolutionized the Universe. The big problem? It isn't true.

The fabric of spacetime is four-dimensional, with three for space and only one for time. But wow, time sure is different from space!

Artificial intelligence is much more than image generation and smart-sounding chatbots; it's also a Nobel-worthy endeavor rooted in physics!