Asel Tui's childhood on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea was coloured with tales of a legendary Russian explorer and scientist who sailed up to his village 150 years ago. But no one ever ...

THE problem of formulating a rigorous mathematical description of the molecular motion in .liquids has always been regarded as much more difficult than that of the kinetic theory of gases or of ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...