Doing up the deep dish

ESA's 35-metre radio antenna in Malargüe, Argentina, has had a major refurbishment. Extenstive modifications made will…

Doing up the deep dish

ESA's 35-metre radio antenna in Malargüe, Argentina, has had a major refurbishment. Extenstive modifications made will…

New York City gentrification creating urban ‘islands of exclusion,’ study finds

The New York metropolitan area has seen tremendous economic growth, but many residents in rapidly gentrifying…

The emergence of male and female traits in the development of beetle horns

The male Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus, which lives on Japan's main island, has big horns…

Martian methane mystery: First results from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

New evidence of the impact of the recent planet-encompassing dust storm on water in the atmosphere,…

How much evidence is enough to declare a new species of human?

The announcement of a new species of ancient human (more correctly hominin) from the Philippines, reported…

Attention skills in a nonhuman cooperative breeding species

Cooperative breeding may facilitate the development of sophisticated communicative abilities such as intentionality and joint attention…

Lower pension, shorter life

Income and social status have an increasing effect on life expectancy in Germany. On average, men…

Working together as a ‘virtual telescope,’ observatories around the world produce first direct images of a black hole

An international team of over 200 astronomers, including scientists from MIT's Haystack Observatory, has captured the…

The Discovery of the Antarctic Ozone Hole

Abstract: The author Nassim Taleb has coined the term ‘‘Black Swan’’ event to describe a very…