Computer simulations explain how electrons with wide-ranging energies rain into Earth’s upper and middle atmosphere during…
New discovery allows early detection of shade avoidance syndrome in plants
Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of…
Fossils show 66 million years of insects eating kauri trees
Exquisitely preserved feeding marks on fossil conifer leaves show that the same insect feeding and fungi…
Kilonovae: Ambushing the standard candle in its own nest
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous and explosive transient phenomena in the universe after the…
Research team finds effect of odor on helpfulness in rats
Despite their reputation, rats are surprisingly sociable and actually regularly help each other out with tasks.…
Conscientiousness key to team success during space missions
NASA is working toward sending humans to Mars by 2030. If all goes according to plan,…
Homes evacuated as cyclone threatens India
Several thousand people in south-eastern India fled their homes on Wednesday, out of the path of…
The universe is expanding too fast, and that could rewrite cosmology
Different measurements of the Hubble constant, the rate of space-time expansion, refuse to agree – meaning…
Nasa 'megarocket' assembly begins in Florida
Nasa has stacked the first pieces of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at Florida’s Kennedy…
Research creates hydrogen-producing living droplets, paving way for alternative future energy source
Scientists have built tiny droplet-based microbial factories that produce hydrogen, instead of oxygen, when exposed to…