Lessons on how to effectively tackle insect invasions

Kenyan food production and grazing land is under threat from a huge desert locust invasion. The…

An evolving understanding of extinction

Few things related to science capture the imagination more than the magic of worlds past. This…

Newly developed screening processes will accelerate carbon capture research

University of Alberta researchers have developed techniques that save a significant amount of time in developing…

Airbus Demonstrates First Fully Automatic Vision-Based Take-Off

Airbus has successfully performed the first fully automatic vision-based take-off using an Airbus Family test aircraft…

Here and gone: Outbound comets are likely of alien origin

Astronomers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have analyzed the paths of two objects…

Microplastics affect sand crabs' mortality and reproduction

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

Self-assembled artificial microtubules developed

Simple LEGO bricks can be assembled to more complicated structures, which can be further associated into…

Focus on opioids and cannabis in chronic pain media coverage

New Zealand media reports on chronic pain are focusing on treatments involving opioids and cannabis at…

Panic like it's 1999: Why aren't we tackling climate change like we did Y2K?

On Dec. 31, 1999, USC students rang in the New Year in a variety of fashions.…

Diverse cropping systems don't increase carbon storage compared to corn-soybean rotations

Integrating perennial crops into corn and soybean rotations doesn’t consistently increase the ability of soils to…