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Maya Wei-Haas

The centuries-old art of folding paper is yielding new applications in spacecraft, architecture, and even the ...

Origami is revolutionising technology, from medicine to space

27 January 2023. By Maya Wei-Haas

Scientists just mapped Hawaii’s volcanic underbelly in stunning detail

23 December 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

‘Alien’ minerals never found on Earth identified in meteorite

15 December 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

Environment and Conservation

See relics of Europe’s industrial past reimagined as amusement parks

30 November 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

Tonga's strange volcanic eruption was even more massive than we knew

21 November 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

Lava built this island—then entombed towns in stone

14 October 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

A second asteroid may have struck during the dinosaurs' demise

18 August 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

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Why daylight saving time exists—and is so unpopular

16 August 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

Mysteries lurk below Iceland's restless volcanoes

15 August 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

Tooth from mysterious human relative adds new wrinkles to their story

18 May 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas, Michael Greshko

New clues reveal the devastation the day the dinosaurs died

23 March 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

This huge black diamond just sold for £3.1 million. No one knows where it came from.

10 February 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

Accidental implosion yields new measurement for ocean's deepest point

9 February 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

The volcanic explosion in Tonga destroyed an island—and created many mysteries

24 January 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

Mysterious purple coating found on Mars rocks

17 January 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

See a rare baby dinosaur curled up in its fossilised egg

22 December 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Ancient footprints hint at mysterious human relative with a strange walk

4 December 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

How one image captures 21 hours of a volcanic eruption

11 November 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Ancient child’s bones deepen mystery of enigmatic human relative

5 November 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Deepest earthquake ever detected struck 467 miles beneath Japan

27 October 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas