Looking past the hype about ‘trackless trams’

The optically guided bus is the latest in a long line of initiatives to repackage the…

Protecting our digital heritage in the age of cyber threats

One of the key functions of the government is to collect and archive national records. This…

Researchers propose a new theory to explain iron-oxide concretions found in Utah and Mongolia

A team of researchers from Japan, Mongolia and the U.K. has developed a new theory to…

Artificial synapses made from nanowires

Scientists from Jülich together with colleagues from Aachen and Turin have produced a memristive element made…

3-D printing eliminates undesirable trait in conventional superalloys

An undesirable trait found in traditionally processed superalloys does not exist in a 3-D-printed, nickel-based superalloy,…

Evolution of the inner ear: Insights from jawless fish

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics (BDR) and collaborators have described for the first…

New insights in rust resistance in wheat

For more than 20 years, a large international group of researchers, including from Aarhus University, has…

Fighting smog supports solar power

Model calculations by ETH researchers show that if China fought smog more aggressively, it could massively…

Dutch research team involved in first landing on the far side of the moon

The Chinese space agency will be launching the Chang'e 4 moon lander on Friday 7 December,…

Chemists find way to prevent side effects from malaria medication

The antimalarial drug Mefloquine, branded as Lariam and used by many travellers to tropical countries, is…