Was Einstein wrong about our universe?
Experiments show neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light
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How designers and botanists are putting a colourful flourish on drab urban landscapes
With or without soil, living walls are energy efficient
The best way to load people into planes
An astrophysicist, fed up with lineups at the boarding gate, crunches the numbers
A tall tail tale
After she lost her tail, Winter the dolphin is now a movie star
Will colonizing meteorites and asteroids with bacteria one day save life as we know it?
Panspermia is meant to maintain Earth’s evolutionary path
Are they white—or brown?
It doesn’t take a scientist to tell a polar bear and a brown bear apart. Or does it?
Power of the placebo
Studies are showing that placebos prescribed to unknowing (and knowing) patients actually work
Antimatter: the stuff of science fiction
There isn’t much antimatter in the universe, but a team of Canadians is trapping atoms of it
The Spirit finally gives up
When NASA scientists finally bid farewell to the Spirit rover, it was impossible not to think of it as a living thing
The trouble with city bats
Bats are flocking to urban areas