While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, falling apart on cosmic scales. If you’re on the surface of Earth—and I’m ...

A leading education union boss says headteachers will be unable to fulfil the government's latest plan to teach the sciences separately at GCSE because of an overwhelming lack of specialist teachers.

Secondary school pupils in Wales will continue to be able to take three separate GCSEs in chemistry, physics and biology after a controversial plan to scrap them in favour of a double science GCSE ...

Three separate GCSEs in chemistry, physics and biology will remain among the options Secondary school pupils in Wales will continue to be able to take three separate GCSEs in chemistry, physics and ...

The database helps companies calculate their greenhouse gas emissions. Its creator left the E.P.A. after being investigated for criticizing the Trump administration. By Harry Stevens The Environmental ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Since its inception, in 2000, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which works with local governments to bring vaccines to low-income countries, has helped administer 1.9 billion vaccines and reached a billion ...

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, ...

An experimental setup devised by Ateneo de Manila University researchers, consisting of a glass slide made hydrophobic by a coating of electrospun PVC microfibers (inset). The researchers were able to ...

Another approach to estimating AI’s environmental footprint is to add up the energy use of the infrastructure used to build the models themselves. Meta’s Llama 3.1, a large language model (LLM), for ...