Using satellites to measure water scarcity

Today, more than 700 million people around the world drink water from unsafe or untreated sources,…

Indonesia ships back tonnes of Australian waste

Indonesia has shipped tonnes of Australian garbage out of the country, an official said Tuesday, as…

Exomars: Parachute test failure threat to launch date

A European-Russian project to land on Mars has been hit by another parachute failure, during a…

Paris launches Notre-Dame lead decontamination work

French workers on Tuesday began efforts to remove lead from the area around Notre-Dame cathedral which…

Restoring soil to address climate change

It’s time to take soil seriously. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with very…

How two water molecules dance together

An international research team has gained new insights into how water molecules interact. A laser with…

Why plastic bags are so hard to get rid of

In June, Canada joined a growing list of countries frustrated with the inability of market forces…

Cow gut study finds bugs that could up yields

Cutting-edge DNA technologies have discovered thousands of bugs in cows’ stomachs that could improve meat and…

Graphene paves the way for novel product enabling industrial users

NPL, Chalmers University of Technology and Graphensic, have demonstrated the long-term stability of the epigraphene quantum…

Mysterious m6A marks on RNA begin to yield their secrets

Chemical modifications that appear on some RNA transcripts may have evolved in part to help cells…