Europe's Sentinel-5P satellite tracks formaldehyde emissions in the air over the Indian sub-continent.
NASA, NSF expedition to study ocean carbon embarks in August from Seattle
Dozens of scientists, as well as underwater drones and other high-tech ocean instruments, will set sail…
OMG, the water’s warm! NASA study solves glacier puzzle
A new NASA study explains why the Tracy and Heilprin glaciers, which flow side by side…
Dynamic modeling helps predict the behaviors of gut microbes
The human gut is teeming with microbes, each interacting with one another in a mind-boggling network…
New discoveries about a lost ship from Britain’s real ‘Game of Thrones’
A team of maritime historians and archaeologists, led by academics at the University of Bristol, has…
Copernicus 20 years on
This week marks 20 years since the manifesto was signed that gave rise to Europe's Copernicus…
Rosetta image archive complete
All high-resolution images and the underpinning data from Rosetta's pioneering mission at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko are now…
Unconfirmed near-Earth objects
Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are small solar system bodies whose orbits sometimes bring them close to the…
Scientists suggest making electronic devices from ‘carbon peas’
Scientists from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Russia) have studied the properties of fullerene nanotubes,…
Understanding how to control ‘jumping’ genes
A team of Texas A&M University and Texas AgriLife Research scientists have made a new discovery…