


“Singing” ice, a seal that sounds like it is in space, and a seismic airgun thundering like a bomb are some of the noises released by two marine acoustic labs.

It is all too easy to fill our days with meetings and other small tasks that leave only small gaps for the serious work. It is important to create time and space for hard tasks.

Even the most basic words can be interpreted differently by different people, and we usually believe that most other people think like we do even when almost nobody does.

Researchers at the US National Ignition Facility created a reaction that made more energy than they put in.

Beware your biases – reviewers award higher marks when a paper’s author is famous.

A brief journey through the history of this revolutionary technique.

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