Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and it squishes easily between your fingers. Snap a woody bracket mushroom off a tree trunk and you’ll struggle to break it. Both extremes grow from the same microscopic building blocks: hyphae – hair-thin
Scientific norms shape the behavior of researchers working for the greater good
Over the past 400 years or so, a set of mostly unwritten guidelines has evolved for how science should be properly done. The assumption in the research community is that science advances most effectively when scientists conduct themselves in certain ways.
Your data privacy is slipping away – here’s why, and what you can do about it
Cybersecurity and data privacy are constantly in the news. Governments are passing new cybersecurity laws[1]. Companies are investing in cybersecurity controls such as firewalls, encryption and awareness training at record levels[2].
And yet, people are losing
War, politics and religion shape wildlife evolution in cities
People often consider evolution to be a process that occurs in nature in the background of human society. But evolution is not separate from human beings. In fact, human cultural practices can influence evolution[1] in wildlife. This influence is highly
Read more https://theconversation.com/war-politics-and-religion-shape-wildlife-evolution-in-cities-260184
What damage did the US do to Iran’s nuclear program? Why it’s so hard to know
The U.S. Air Force dropped a dozen ground-penetrating bombs, each weighing 30,000 pounds (13,607 kilograms), in a raid on Iran’s nuclear site[1] at Fordo on June 21, 2025. The attack was an attempt to reach the uranium enrichment facility buried deep
Why the US bombed a bunch of metal tubes − a nuclear engineer explains the importance of centrifuges to Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons
When U.S. forces attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities[1] on June 21, 2025, the main target was metal tubes in laboratories deep underground. The tubes are centrifuges that produce highly enriched uranium needed to build nuclear weapons.
Inside of a centrifuge,
How your data pulls in hundreds of billions of dollars for app and social media companies
You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which shows hourly weather forecasts for your location. And the app is free!
But do you