Hands off our grasslands

In the north eastern Free State, a 60 km green corridor is being created that will…

PIA23640: Orcus Patera Dark Slope Streaks

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Click here…

Climate may play a bigger role than deforestation in rainforest biodiversity

“Save the rainforests” is a snappy slogan, but it doesn’t tell the full story of how…

Internet use reduces study skills in university students

Research conducted at Swansea University and the University of Milan has shown that students who use…

Not all of nature's layered structures are tough as animal shells and antlers

Engineers looking to nature for inspiration have long assumed that layered structures like those found in…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/17/2020

Acoustic Diagnostics: The crew set up the appropriate hardware, performed the audio measurements, and used the…

Programmable nests for cells

Using DNA, small silica particles, and carbon nanotubes, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have…

3-D printing with applications in the pharmaceutical industry

University of Seville researchers, in collaboration with the University of Nottingham, have managed to create the…

Microplastics affect sand crabs' mortality and reproduction, study finds

Sand crabs, a key species in beach ecosystems, were found to have increased adult mortality and…

Charge model for calculating the photo-excited states of one-dimensional Mott insulators

Assistant Professor Ohmura Shu and Professor Takahashi Akira of the Nagoya Institute of Technology and others…