Mesoamerican copper smelting technology aided colonial weaponry

When Spanish invaders arrived in the Americas, they were generally able to subjugate the local peoples…

ESA’s other Galileo satellite: in action, on the ground

Europe has 26 Galileo navigation satellites in orbit, blanketing the world in positioning signals, with another…

Coronavirus: Lockdown 'must become the social norm'

“Social pressure from others” will be key in persuading the UK to stay at home, a…

When warblers warn of cowbirds, blackbirds get the message

This is the story of three bird species and how they interact. The brown-headed cowbird plays…

New Trump mileage standards to gut Obama climate effort

President Donald Trump is poised to roll back ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the…

SMOS tracking changes in ocean salinity

Over the last decade, ESA’s SMOS satellite has been used to track changes in the salinity…

Unravelling the mystery of black holes: Scientists release stellar code to the public

Today, team COMPAS (Compact Object Mergers: Population Astrophysics and Statistics) has announced the first public beta…

Scientists record first reported heatwave at Antarctica's Casey research station

This summer, while drought, heatwaves and bushfires ravaged Australia, Antarctica was also experiencing a summer of…

New method predicts which black holes escape their galaxies

Shoot a rifle, and the recoil might knock you backward. Merge two black holes in a…

A new tool for controlling reactions in microrobots and microreactors

In a new paper, Thomas Russell and postdoctoral fellow Ganhua Xie, at the University of Massachusetts…