Little by little, it’s getting increasingly easier to hold oil and gas companies accountable for their deceptions and harms.

Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, a future physics prizewinner is born. Among the many awards and honors bestowed on Chushiro Hayashi was the Kyoto Prize, Japan’s highest award for achievement in the arts or sciences. Credit: Inamori Foundation/Wikimedia Commons Born on July 25, 1920, Chushiro Hayashi graduated from the University…

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Space is incomprehensibly vast. So huge that the human mind struggles to even conceptualize it. The observable universe spans roughly 93 billion light-years. Even our own humble galaxy, the Milky Way — a few tiny stitches of the universal canvas — stretches across 100,000 light-years and contains hundreds of billions of stars. It’s no wonder,…

Palaeontologists in Thailand say they have discovered a new species of dinosaur from fossils found in Kalasin Province in the country’s north-east. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Uragasaurus kalasinensis, is thought to have lived about 150 million years ago. It had an unusually long neck and measured up to 20m (66ft) – roughly the length of…

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Nitrogen is essential for every known form of life on Earth. Now, scientists say this common element may also help explain how the earliest life evolved on our planet and how life could develop elsewhere in the universe. “All living organisms need nitrogen to survive and, though it’s all around us, we can’t access it…