About that spare room: employers requisitioned our homes and our time

Working from home during COVID-19 appeared to cost us little. Click here for original…

Why it's so critical to continuously monitor and manage plant diseases

Most of us understand the critical importance of monitoring the spread of diseases. And it is…

NIST software aids the analysis of instrumented charpy tests

To help labs characterize the toughness of steel, a new software package allows analysis of instrumented…

Study shows contagions could be catalysts for mass migration

Could the COVID-19 pandemic spell the end of globalisation and migration? Click here for…

Tool developed to calculate household 'plastics footprint'

How much plastic do we really use, and can we live without it? These are among…

Researchers discover skyrmions can split like biological cells

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered that skyrmions— a type of…

News next steps for the future of U.K. inshore fisheries

The next steps for an ambitious and collaborative project which aims to improve how inshore fisheries…

Local news volume does not increase pro-social behaviors during COVID-19

During this pandemic, there are countless voices urging Americans to engage in the kind of civic…

US fighter jets intercept Russian bombers off Alaska: NORAD

DefenceTalk US fighter jets intercepted Russian bombers twice on Wednesday off the coast of Alaska, US…

New plant gene editing approach improves speed, scalability and heritability  

Breeding plants for specific characteristics goes back thousands of years. For most of that time, the…