Education

The largest known organism on Earth isn’t a whale or a tree — it’s a single fungus growing underground in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest, covering nearly four square miles, mostly invisible, estimated to be between two and eight thousand years old and slowly killing the forest above it from beneath

Swarthmore College will be tuition-free for families earning under $200,000

The rock formations in the Scottish Highlands and western Newfoundland match each other almost exactly — because the two were part of the same mountain range hundreds of millions of years ago, before the Atlantic Ocean opened and split them across what is now an entire ocean

For more than thirty years after his death in 1955, Albert Einstein’s brain was kept in a series of jars in the basement of a Kansas pathologist who had removed it during the autopsy without permission — and when researchers finally examined it in the 1980s and 1990s, one study found that a specific region called the inferior parietal lobule was about fifteen percent wider than the average brain

By 2025, a 4,800-year-old bristlecone pine named Methuselah in California’s White Mountains remained the oldest known non-clonal living tree, and the exact location of the gnarled, wind-stunted survivor is kept secret by the US Forest Service to protect it from vandals and souvenir hunters.

Katharine Birbalsingh: Middle class parents shun my schools

AI Is Reshaping Classrooms. Are India's teachers getting the support they need?

We teach STEM, but we don’t teach scientific citizenship

There is more freshwater locked inside the rocks of Earth’s mantle than in every river, lake, and surface reservoir on the planet combined, hidden in a mineral called ringwoodite hundreds of miles beneath your feet

Paleontologists in New Mexico have just dug up a two-legged, beak-mouthed reptile that looks almost exactly like a small dinosaur — except it lived more than a hundred million years before any dinosaur evolved that body plan, and it wasn’t a dinosaur at all, but a distant cousin of modern crocodiles

Michael Hiltzik: Are dodos and mammoths coming back from extinction? Don't count on it

The Magic of Rainbows: The Science Behind Why We See Colors in the Sky

A small wave breaking on a beach contains more living organisms than the total number of humans who have ever existed on Earth — roughly 10 million bacteria, viruses, and tiny plankton in every milliliter of seawater — meaning every wave that touches the shore carries a population of life that vastly outnumbers every person who has ever lived in the entire history of our species

‘Tell me about yourself’: I asked ChatGPT to prepare me for a big job interview; AI gives me key questions and answers

Higher education transformation amid global mobility trends

In September 2023 a mega-tsunami in Greenland sent tremors around the entire planet for nine days and scientists have only just confirmed how

CBSE rejects Rahul Gandhi's ‘erroneous, misleading' allegations over Coempt Edu Teck contract

A volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo sits closer to outer space than Mount Everest does, not because it is taller, but because the Earth bulges at the equator and Everest, further from that bulge, is actually deeper inside the planet.

Only 0.001 percent of the deep ocean floor has ever been seen by human eyes — an area roughly the size of Rhode Island — according to a May 2025 study in Science Advances, meaning more than 99.999 percent of the seafloor covering two-thirds of our planet has never been observed by anyone, ever

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