Which COVID-19 models should we use to make policy decisions?

A new process to harness multiple disease models for outbreak management has been developed by an…

OSIRIS-REx succeeds in sampling rehearsal, taking a step closer to asteroid Bennu

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) has successfully descended down to just…

Quantum resonances near absolute zero

Recently, Prof. Yang Xueming from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of…

Can we estimate the time until the next recession?

As the world economy is falling into one of the biggest contractions of the last decades,…

Planting trees is no panacea for climate change, ecologist writes in Science commentary

Restoration ecologist Karen Holl has a simple message for anyone who thinks planting 1 trillion trees…

Laser loop couples quantum systems over a distance

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating strong coupling between quantum systems over a…

Bug experts dismiss worry about US 'murder hornets' as hype

Insect experts say people should calm down about the big bug with the nickname “murder hornet”—unless…

Traffic pollution drops in lockdown—but other risks to air quality increase, researchers reveal

Traffic pollution for most parts of the UK is plummeting thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown but…

Light, sound, action: Extending the life of acoustic waves on microchips

Scientists in Australia and Europe have taken an important step towards removing ‘hot’ electrons from the…

IARU Region 2 Online Emergency Communication Workshops Get Under Way

International Amateur Radio Union Region 2 (IARU R2) virtual emergency communication workshops got under way on…