Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Hundreds of thousands of students have now nervously opened their A-level results. These handfuls of letter grades matter, and not just to the students themselves. They …
Credit: Policy Institute, King’s College London The new government has come to power at a time when trust in politics is, in the Labor party’s words, “shattered.” Keir Starmer has …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain What will our climate look like in the future? It is hard to overstate not only the importance of answering this question, but also the challenges …
Octopus detail from a Roman mosaic in the ‘House of the Dancing Faun’, Pompeii (circa 1st century BC). Credit: Wikimedia If we want to research a subject, how do we …
Niger delta map showing the study area . Credit: All Earth (2023). DOI: 10.1080/27669645.2023.2299109 The Niger Delta, in southern Nigeria, is one of the most significant oil-producing regions in the …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain During the solstices, thousands gather at Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain in England to celebrate the monument’s astronomical alignment. The focal point of these festivities is …
An aerial view of James Island and James Fort. The Jamestown colony was established in Tsenacomoco, the Algonquian name for the Powhatan chiefdom in the tidewater areas of the Chesapeake …
Artist’s illustration of a hypothetical J1249+36-white dwarf binary pair that ends with the white dwarf exploding into a supernova (left), which sends its companion L subdwarf star flying out across …
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People who have spent time in state care as children are far less likely to go to university than their peers who have not been in …
Credit: AI-generated image A fish on land still waves its fins, but the results are markedly different when that fish is in water. Attributed to renowned computer scientist Alan Kay, …