It can look almost too easy: athletes gliding along on a bike, runners shuffling at a pace slower than most people’s warm-up, ...

Where typical ocean tides average about three feet, the Bay of Fundy’s record-setting tides soar over 50. This means 160 ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming ...

I recently asked myself if I’ll still have a healthy brain as I get older. I hold a professorship at a neurology department.

I recently asked myself if I’ll still have a healthy brain as I get older. I hold a professorship at a neurology department. Nevertheless, it is difficult for me to judge if a ...

Can you melt wood? Most of the time, the answer is no. But as with many things in science, under the right circumstances, it ...