Researcher captures striking Antarctic video of minke whale

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Marine mammal expert Dr. Regina Eisert thought minke whales were a…

Preventing hurricanes using air bubbles

Many people have tried to find ways of preventing hurricanes before they make landfall, resulting in…

A new technique allows researchers to create real system cartographic maps at different scales

Researchers at the Institute of Complex Systems of the University of Barcelona (UBICS) have developed a…

ESA’s next science mission to focus on nature of exoplanets

The nature of planets orbiting stars in other systems will be the focus for ESA's fourth…

Radon research leads to new technique to improve global climate models

An investigation that set out to resolve some of the uncertainty in the sources and quantities…

Physicists reveal material for high-speed quantum internet

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have rediscovered a material that could be…

Earth from Space: special edition

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition,…

City-dwelling blackbirds have poorer measures of health

Blackbirds live longer in cities than in forests. But their telomeres, repetitive stretches of DNA at…

Filling lithium-ion cells faster

Developers from Bosch and scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are using neutrons to…

Natural aphid predators reduce pesticide use

The greater the diversity of crops grown in agricultural landscapes is, the better natural predators of…