CryoSat sheds new light on Antarctica’s biggest glacier

Ice loss from Pine Island Glacier has contributed more to sea-level rise over the past four…

Cosmic records

Image: ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano (middle) and NASA astronaut Drew Morgan (left) work on get-ahead tasks…

Letter to Congress From The Commercial Spaceflight Federation Regarding The NASA Authorization Bill

Letter to Congress From The Commercial Spaceflight Federation Regarding The NASA Authorization Bill Click…

Sea level rise to cause major economic impact in the absence of further climate action

The Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015 by 175 parties, aims to limit global warming to well…

British public doesn't know what microplastics are

Members of the British public are still largely unfamiliar with microplastics and how they relate to…

A new model has been developed that simulates the accumulation of lipids in membranes

Cholesterol is crucial to the formation of the cell membranes of mammals and is part of…

Mathematician discovers conditions for stabilization of higher-order differential inequalities

A RUDN University mathematician (Russia) and a colleague have determined the conditions for stabilization of differential…

Study finds ethics can be taught—in finance, at least

Testing investment advisers on their knowledge of ethics can lead to better behavior, new research shows. …

Quantum computers offer another look at classic physics concepts

“Think what we can do if we teach a quantum computer to do statistical mechanics,” posed…

NASA forest structure mission releases first data

NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation mission (GEDI) released its first publicly available data on January 21,…