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Study points to Armenian origins of ancient crop with aviation biofuel potential
Camelina, also known as false flax or Gold-of-Pleasure, is an ancient oilseed crop with emerging applications…
Cities: how urban design can make people less likely to use public spaces
Urban beautification campaigns are usually sold to local residents as a way to improve their daily…
NASA considers sending swimming robots to habitable 'ocean worlds' of the solar system
NASA has recently announced US$600,000 (£495,000) in funding for a study into the feasibility of sending…
Shedding light on comet Chury's unexpected chemical complexity
A team of researchers led by the University of Bern has for the first time identified…
Greater insight into the pinning effects of skyrmions
When researchers use an optical Kerr microscope to zoom in on thin films of magnetic material,…
Research reveals British people feel very differently about some refugees than others
As of late May, in the three months since Russia invaded Ukraine, 6.8 million refugees had…
The futuristic South Pole Telescope looks far back in time
Surveying the cosmos from its isolated position in Antarctica, a collaborative project aims to reveal insights…
Video: The Fingertip Galaxy: Reflecting Euclid in art
“After Euclid’s lifetime, it will just be floating in space. What if future beings found Euclid?…
What comes after the Higgs boson
Ten years ago this week, two international collaborations of groups of scientists, including a large contingent…