Animals are driven by passion – whether it’s the lasting bonds that last a lifetime like swans or the short, intense, fleeting, stormy love of snow leopards, finding a mate is an important part of being alive. We’ve collected some of the best stories of love and attraction from the world of wildlife. The most … Read more
Alexis Madrigal: Welcome to Forum. I’m Alexis Madrigal. I can’t be alone because I’ve always wanted to go to Antarctica. Something about the strangeness of the land and the remoteness of the place—something about the lack of human destruction, something about the sheer challenge of getting there and surviving. Our guest this morning, Ariel Waldman, … Read more
When an unusual sight of land appeared, Egyptian traveler Omar Nok jumped out of his narrow seat and onto the deck of the 49-foot boat he was traveling on. After weeks of being surrounded by nothing but sea, the view of the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, home to the UNESCO-listed Piton mountains, left him … Read more
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has created a 35.6 tesla supermagnet, which is more than 700,000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field, capable of working for more than 200 hours while using less energy, and the system has been installed in Beijing as a shared research tool for quantum materials, superconductors, nuclear molecules. China … Read more
The UN officer was trained for this moment. He was training and practicing on the tables in his offices in Vienna, sitting in a gray and unassuming 1970s concrete building near the Danube River. Aarti Holla-Maini, a British lawyer with a background in the satellite business, needed to at least play the situation step by … Read more
There is no greater test of a home’s transformation than whether its discerning residents choose to move, stay and raise a family. On Cape York Peninsula, at the northern tip of Queensland, new tenants are among Australia’s oldest and most endangered birds: the palm cockatoo. When the first chick was hatched in a hole dug … Read more
Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), with support from the US Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Army Research Office, have announced a successful breakthrough produced by laser light and manipulating a new state of matter called supersolid at room temperature. The research group … Read more