The United States is sitting on a volcanic relic that could reshape the global race for electric vehicle batteries and renewable energy storage. Beneath a vast ancient crater in the West, geologists ...

The world feels in an especially febrile moment right now. Conflicts pushing us closer, perhaps, to a world war. Accelerating climate change and its drastic impacts on our planet and people. The rapid ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

As nearly half of the world’s population headed to the polls this year, politics grabbed many of the headlines. But scientists and the natural world also managed to attract the public’s attention.