In Earth's largest extinction, land die-offs began long before ocean turnover

The mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period 252 million years ago—one of the…

Global supply chains as a way to curb carbon emissions

The coronavirus outbreak raised everyone’s awareness of the significance of global supply chains to modern economies.…

Space science from home: Resources for children and adults

With many people across the world staying at home these days, we have curated a selection…

A left turn that kills: New mechanism triggering cell death and inflammation

Writing in Nature, researchers from Cologne, Texas and London describe their discovery of a new mechanism…

Understanding variable stability and mechanical resilience in streptavidin-biotin binding

Recent research by Rafael C. Bernardi at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign examines why a common…

Dig for artifacts confirms New Guinea's Neolithic period

It is well known that agriculture developed independently in New Guinea 7000 years ago, but evidence…

Revisiting decades-old Voyager 2 data, scientists find one more secret about Uranus

Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA’s Voyager 2…

A new approach to achieving stable, high-repetition-rate laser pulses

High-repetition-rate pulsed lasers serve a wide range of applications, from optical communications to microwave photonics and…

Bats depend on teamwork when foraging over farmland

Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) have reported in a paper…

New carbon dot-based method for increasing the efficiency of solar cells and LEDs

An international group of scientists, including some from ITMO University, has proposed a method that allows…