The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João Magueijo has always ...

The mountain dominates the western coast of New Zealand’s North Island, also known as Aotearoa. Its peak is like the center point of a sundial, the shadows on its slopes telling time. The cloud ...

The need to protect populations from environmental harm or contamination is not new. Whenever human welfare was imperiled, those in power within most ancient civilizations passed laws to address these ...

So, you may have read The Lorax when you were growing up, and you will recall that the great declaration of that book is a Lorax standing at a stump and saying, ‘I speak for the trees,’” says visiting ...

In real life, laws are broken all the time. Besides your everyday criminals, there are scammers and fraudsters, politicians and mobsters, corporations and nations that regard laws as suggestions ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Most physicists believe that our universe began with a Big Bang. But how did the laws of nature – for example, the strength of gravity, the speed of light, and the strength ...

Plugging Away at the Millions of Derelict Oil and Gas Wells in the US As El Niño Approaches, Scientists Predict Fierce Heatwaves, Wildfires and Floods $370 Million Payout Lawmakers in Utah are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Environmental systems scientist at the University of Delaware. As the story goes, humanity’s “first contact” with an alien species ...