Re­searchers de­vel­op a com­pact in­frared spec­trom­e­ter

ETH researchers have developed a compact infrared spectrometer. It’s small enough to fit on a computer…

Breastfeeding can help tackle climate crisis but it's on governments, not mums to save the world

In the midst of debates about how to best tackle the climate crisis, breastfeeding was recently…

Defining and measuring sustainability

Back in 2009 when I was completing my book Sustainability Management and preparing it for publication…

Physicists measure the variation of the top-quark mass for the first time

For the first time, CMS physicists have investigated an effect called the “running” of the top…

A close up on the real world—atomic migration under ambient conditions

Increasing our understanding of how individual atoms and molecules participate in chemical reactions is critical to…

Non-antibiotic cures for cows could speed up treatments for people

As the global antibiotic resistance crisis grows, chemical-based aerosol sprays and electrical signals to wake up…

Russia bestows medal on US astronaut in failed launch

Russia has decorated NASA astronaut Nick Hague, who survived an aborted space launch last year, with…

Swiss Nobel Physics laureates hail win as 'simply extraordinary'

Two Swiss scientists who on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize along with a Canadian-American colleague…

Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to 3 scientists for their contribution to understanding of the evolution of the universe

Canadian-American James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz on Tuesday won the Nobel…

Nobel prize in physics goes to cosmic discoveries

Three scientists have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries about the Universe. …