1. Animal movements are the primary behavioural adaptation to spatiotemporal heterogeneity in resource availability. Depending on their spatiotemporal scale, movements have been categorized into ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Astronomers led by an MIT professor have revised the scale used to assess the threat of asteroids and comets colliding with Earth to better communicate those risks with the public.

Using a football field, a drone, some peas, a few pepper flakes, grapes, and some people playing soccer, Mark Rober cleverly built what is probably the easiest to understand scale model of our solar ...

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It seems way bigger when you measure it in terms of hamburgers. Engineer Will Arnold has come up with a clever way of demonstrating the scale of upfront carbon emissions, a problem many have been ...

What does it mean that Wednesday’s earthquake registered a 4.4? An early morning earthquake woke many in Atlanta on Wednesday morning, registering 4.4 on the Richter scale. But what does that mean?