How seeing the molecular machinery of the coronavirus will help scientists design a treatment

In the race to develop a treatment for COVID-19, the disease threatening millions of lives around…

Pharma's potential impact on water quality

When people take medications, these drugs and their metabolites can be excreted and make their way…

Peer review process best method to determine scientific funding, study finds

While everybody these days has an opinion about science that affects us all, the wisest approach…

Burying or burning garbage boosts airborne bacteria, antibiotic resistance genes

Municipal solid waste is trash—such as plastic, food scraps and lawn clippings—that goes into garbage bins…

'Whiskey webs' are the new 'coffee ring effect'

Spilled coffee forms a ring as the liquid evaporates, depositing solids along the edge of the…

Printing complex cellulose-based objects

Researchers from ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have…

Tracking Methane Sources and Movement Around the Globe

NASA’s new three-dimensional portrait of methane concentrations shows the world’s second largest contributor to greenhouse warming. …

New research on the sand lance, 'a quintessential forage fish' for seabirds and marine mammals

A slender little fish called the sand lance plays a big role as “a quintessential forage…

Pets: The voiceless victims of the COVID-19 crisis

Reports of companion animals starving or being killed as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak highlight…

Underwater avalanches are trapping microplastics in the deep ocean

A collaborative research project between the Universities of Manchester, Utrecht, and Durham, and the National Oceanography…