Physical Sciences Archives

Shortfin Mako Shark under Threat

The shortfin mako shark is disappearing 10 times faster than previously thought. How are researchers trying to change this process?

Since the 1980s, Staghorn corals have suffered massive declines (up to 98 percent). How can we restore them? With coral restoration programs.

With the help of high school students, scientists at The American Museum of Natural History are creating an online catalog…

The federal government has a critical role to play in ensuring a smooth transition to a secure and modernized electrical grid.

A group of scientists think they can build such a “consciousness meter” using complex mathematics: the geometry of consciousness.

Physics

New desalination tech, a graphene sieve, has the potential to be smaller, faster, and more easily adjustable than existing methods.

By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Wood ants are natural mixologists, concocting their own defensive cocktails, a new study finds. They protect…

Biology Physics

Are you a runner? You can use some basic laws of physics to improve your running. Understand the forces between the ground and your feet.

Large sharks are known to heal rapidly and resist cancer. Could humans possibly learn how sharks do it and copy them?

There is a lot of trash orbiting earth. More than 170 million pieces and counting, in fact. The pieces of…