COVID-19 infections in U.S. may be much higher, new estimates show

By March 1, 2020, thousands of people in the U.S. may have already been infected by…

Safety zone saves giant moons from fatal plunge

Numerical simulations showed that the temperature gradient in the disk of gas around a young gas…

New study unveils the mechanism of DNA high-order structure formation

A recent study, affiliated with South Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has…

Research uncovers a new way of making chiral catalysts

Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered a new way to create one hand of…

Ship noise hampers crab camouflage

Colour-changing crabs struggle to camouflage themselves when exposed to noise from ships, new research shows. …

How technology can combat the rising tide of fake science

Science gets a lot of respect these days. Unfortunately, it’s also getting a lot of competition…

Sea turtles have a deadly attraction to stinky plastic

Sea turtles around the world are threatened by marine plastic debris, mostly through ingestion and entanglement.…

Atomic fingerprint identifies emission sources of uranium

Uranium is not always the same: depending on whether this chemical element is released by the…

What MH17 has taught us about international disaster investigations

For the Dutch Safety Board (DSB), the investigation into the MH17 plane crash was unprecedented in…

Wearable devices powered by body motion using stretchable carbon nanotube thin films

A transparent, stretchable triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) with area up to 12 cm x 12 cm and…