Greenland ice sheet melt ‘off the charts’ compared with past four centuries

Surface melting across Greenland's mile-thick ice sheet began increasing in the mid-19th century and then ramped…

Global carbon dioxide emissions rise even as coal wanes and renewables boom

Global fossil fuel emissions are on track to rise for a second year in a row,…

First observation of a square lattice of merons and antimerons

Scientists have, for the first time, observed a square lattice of merons and antimerons—tiny magnetic vortices…

Strong growth in global CO2 emissions expected for 2018

Global carbon emissions are set to hit an all-time high in 2018—according to researchers at the…

COSINE-100 experiment investigates dark matter mystery

Astrophysical evidence suggests that the universe contains a large amount of non-luminous dark matter, but no…

Pollution: New ammonia emission sources detected from space

Researchers from the CNRS and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) have prepared the first global…

We don’t need stars to navigate space – black holes work way better

If you want to find your way across the universe, forget using stars or GPS. The…

We don’t need stars to navigate space – black holes work way better

If you want to find your way across the universe, forget using stars or GPS. The…

Fossil blubber shows ichthyosaurs were warm blooded reptiles

A fossil so well preserved that its skin is still flexible is revealing much more about…

Baboons live for months after getting genetically modified pig hearts

Genetically modified pig hearts have kept baboons alive for more than 90 days, a threshold that…