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Earth science

Lightning and Thunder: Electrical Phenomena in Nature

Lightning is one of the most remarkable electrical phenomena produced by nature. The moment lightning flashes is not only visually beautiful but also conceals complex scientific pr

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Journalism & communication

News Staged for the Camera: The Pseudo-Event

A pseudo-event is an event planned and staged so that it will be reported and widely publicized, rather than one that happens on its own. This article covers the concept introduced

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Chemistry

Why Ice Forms Later: Freezing Point Depression

Freezing point depression is the lowering of a liquid’s freezing temperature when other substances are dissolved in it. We look at why dissolved particles slow ice formation, why t

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Statistics

Same Numbers, Different Pictures: Anscombe’s Quartet

Anscombe’s Quartet is a set of four datasets whose summary statistics are nearly identical but whose graphs look completely different. This piece covers how it came about, the trap

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Library & information science

Knowledge Hidden Outside Formal Publishing: Grey Literature

Government reports, theses, conference papers and working papers: what grey literature is, where the term came from, why research needs it, and why it is so hard to find and preser