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When a wildfire threatens a community, most people don't think to ask whether the firefighters coming to help slept enough the night before, recovered from the previous day's shift or have enough energy left for another day on the fireline. They simply expect firefighters to show

High-energy nuclear collisions recreate extreme conditions similar to those in the early universe, producing quark–gluon plasma (QGP), a hot state of matter in which quarks and gluons are no longer confined inside protons and neutrons. While large systems such as lead–lead collis

In the hunt for one of nature's most elusive substances—dark matter, which makes up 85% of all matter in the universe—scientists are going to extremes. Deep underground and chilled to near absolute zero, the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) SNOLAB—one of the world's

When an athlete swings upside down atop a 7-meter (23-foot) pendulum, it may seem like a feat of strength, courage or technique. A new study suggests it is something more fundamental: a striking demonstration of how intelligence emerges from the interaction of brain, body and env

As climate change has led to more frequent extreme-heat events around the world, moist heat metrics such as wet-bulb temperature, which combines temperature and humidity, have become increasingly relevant. Days with both high heat and high humidity are dangerous to human health;

With more than 1,000 people still missing after the devastating flash flood that hit Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday, international rescue teams are working to locate survivors. But, as France 24’s Navodita Kumari reports, they are facing “extremely challenging” conditions due to th

France 24's Leela Jacinto takes a look at how the extreme geography of Nepal and Tibet, dominated by the Himilaya mountains, contributed to the initial confusion over the cause of catastrophic floods that have killed at least 180 people - now believed to be the result of a glacia

Our buildings are monuments to extraction and extreme emissions. But what if we turned from destructive concrete to timber?Last chance to buy the summer issue of The Long Read magazine, now with 15% off. Click here to orderI travelled to Oslo in the early autumn. It felt like arr

A new season at the snazziest modern stadium in England and something extremely welcome for Tottenham. A home win over domestic opposition. There were only four of them last season; three in the Premier League with the final one – over Everton on the last day – helping them to av

As climate change makes extreme weather more frequent and intense, floods, heat waves, droughts, wildfires and storms are increasingly disrupting roads, railways, airports and waterways. Roads have been closed in Germany during this summer's heat waves, for example, while travel

Patients with extreme obesity are more common among those undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery than previously recognized, and although they face a greater burden of certain health conditions and surgical complications, their overall surgical risk remains relatively low, ac

MIT engineers have built an AI tool that forecasts extreme weather without training on historical disaster data. Kai Chang, a mechanical engineering graduate student, and Professor Themis Sapsis developed the tool. It produces maps of events that have not appeared in a region’s h