Backyard gardeners can act to help bee populations

Chemicals are routinely applied around residential landscapes to kill insect pests and troublesome weeds, but many…

Novel Quantum effect found: Spin-rotation coupling

It is like jumping on and off a carousel: what happens to neutrons changing from a…

Later school start times reduce car crashes, improve teen safety

A study found that later school start times were associated with a significant drop in vehicle…

Lasers and terahertz waves combined in camera that sees 'unseen' detail

A team of physicists has successfully developed the first nonlinear camera capable of capturing high-resolution images…

Enigmatic small primate finally caught on film in Taita, Kenya

Good news from the Kenyan Taita Hills: the Taita mountain dwarf galago still survives. This was…

First research results on the 'spectacular meteorite fall' of Flensburg

A fireball in the sky, accompanied by a bang, amazed hundreds of eyewitnesses in northern Germany…

Locust swarms arrive in South Sudan, threatening more misery

Swarms of locusts which are wreaking havoc across East Africa have now arrived in South Sudan,…

SpaceX announces partnership to send 4 tourists into deep orbit

SpaceX announced a new partnership Monday to send four tourists deeper into orbit than any private…

Off-grid sanitation systems show promise, despite toilet paper

As legend has it, when French workers felt their livelihoods threatened by automation in the early…

Study reveals origin of endangered Colombian poison frog hybrids

The origin of an understudied hybrid population of poisonous frogs—highly endangered colorful animals that live deep…