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  1. Chemistry

    Elusive triangular snowflakes explained

    Dust particles,wind and aerodynamics could steer some snowflakes toward a three-sided fate

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  2. Humans

    Loneliness is contagious, study suggests

    An analysis of social networks finds that people who feel isolated may spread mistrust among others.

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  3. Paleontology

    Major eruption cooled the climate but went unnoticed

    Ice-core records suggest that a major 1809 eruption cooled Earth even before the Tambora eruption and ‘the year without a summer’.

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  4. Space

    World’s biggest atom smasher sets first record

    After a year’s delay, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, became the world’s highest energy particle accelerator on November 30, revving up each of its twin proton beams to energies of 1.18