Upside-down design expands wide-spectrum super-camera abilities

By turning a traditional lab-based fabrication process upside down, researchers at Duke University have greatly expanded…

Is this goat the GOAT? Long-eared kid takes Pakistan by storm

A kid goat with extraordinarily long ears has become something of a media star in Pakistan,…

Indigenous Australian activists fight for ancient rock art

Two Indigenous Australian activists are fighting to save 40,000-year-old sacred rock art in Western Australia from…

Why does inside of solar system not spin faster? Old mystery has possible new solution

The motion of a tiny number of charged particles may solve a longstanding mystery about thin…

Biologists' fears confirmed on the lower Colorado River

For National Park Service fisheries biologist Jeff Arnold, it was a moment he’d been dreading. Bare-legged…

Contact restored with NASA spacecraft headed to lunar orbit

NASA said Wednesday that contact has been restored with its $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the…

Delaying grapes from ripening results in more flavorsome wine

Researchers from the University of Adelaide have crunched the data on the best methods to delay…

Citizen scientists from 200 years ago and today help shed light on climate change trends

Nearly 200 years ago, a system of academies across New York set out to collect data…

Frequency-domain STED microscopy for selective background noise suppression

Nanoscopy describes the ability to see beyond the generally accepted optical limit of 200–300 nm. Stimulated…

Early stone tools were not rocket science

Archaeologically excavated stone tools—some as much as 2.6 million years old—have been hailed as evidence for…