Red-light therapy promises to treat everything from acne and hair loss to depression and chronic pain. Many of these claims are overhyped, but evidence suggests it can have healing powers
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At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash widespread rainforest dieback with as little as 1.5°C of global warming
Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena. <p>The post <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting-20260506/" target="_blank">What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting.</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" target="_blank">Quanta Magazine</a></p>
When the slope of a mountain above Tracy Arm fjord, in Alaska, gave way on 10 August 2025, 64 million cubic metres of rock fell into the fjord, causing a 5.4 magnitude seismic event
This 2013 book by an Indigenous botanist is a quietly urgent act of healing that forces Western science to look at the world in a different way
New research suggests glacier melt driven by climate change is increasing the risk of giant waves.
Ensamhushåll sliter mer på jordens resurser. och Norden sticker ut. Forskare har studerat orsakerna – och hoppas på nya slags kollektivboenden.
Prize-winning young writer Hasset Kifle, 17, explores how the world of super-competitive running is being transformed by so-called “super shoes” – and what cost this will have on the sport
Vem behöver hormonbehandling och varför rekommenderas styrketräning så ofta? Forskare svarar på vanliga frågor om klimakteriet.
Lundin Oil-rättegången är inne i sitt slutskede. Rättprocessen kan få betydelse för hur domstolar bedömer företags ansvar för krigsförbrytelser.
<p>En ny studie visar på ett nytt och potentiellt mer energieffektivt sätt att överföra information inom elektroniska system, som datorer och telefoner – utan att förlita sig på elektriska strömmar eller externa magnetfält.</p>
När allt fler länder rör sig bort från demokrati prövas Europas självbild. EU:s värderingar och soft power diskuterades under Debatt i Lund.
Studier visar att över 60 procent av klimatpåverkan i intensivvården kommer från den växande mängden engångsprodukter.
Figures show that spring drought events are happening more often while there has been a sharp rise in "fire weather".
Övningar som kan inlemmas i utbildningen ger elever verktyg att hantera klimatstress och ångest.
Fossils reveal that there were at least two kinds of koala when humans first arrived in Australia, but one died out about 30,000 years ago when the west of the continent dried out
Creating quantum entanglement inside a solid material is tricky in the lab – but crystals buried in the earth could be growing it naturally. Now one scientist says he has proof he’s found them
NHS England is pulling its open-source software from the internet because of fears around computer-hacking AI models like Mythos. Opposition is growing among those who say the move is bad for transparency and efficiency, and will also do nothing to improve security
Three passengers on the cruise ship MV Hondius have died due to an outbreak of hantavirus, a rare illness transmitted by rodents
A biopsy of a woman's cancer seems to have triggered an immune response against the tumour, putting her into remission
Forskare vid Lunds universitet medverkar i ett internationellt projekt som förändrar tillgången till några av världens äldsta skriftliga källor.
One of the best-performing models in cosmology is also one with the least physical rationale behind it. Columnist Leah Crane says this leaves us with a puzzle that could make or break physics as we know it