Climate change expected to shift location of East Asian Monsoons

More than a billion people in Asia depend on seasonal monsoons for their water needs. The…

Image: Aircraft nose dome assessed in ESA Hertz chamber

ESA test facilities can test more than just space hardware: here, the 2.0m-diameter nose of an…

Hayabusa 2 begins long journey home carrying Ryugu asteroid samples

With two samples from the interior of the asteroid Ryugu on board, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft…

Could digging up the ocean floor help save the planet?

The seabed is rich in metals, but what damage could mining it cause? Click…

Electric car future may depend on deep sea mining

Demand is soaring for the metal cobalt, an essential ingredient in batteries and abundant on the…

Antidepressants polluting the water can change fish behavior

The Monash scientists who found that pharmaceutical pollutants in waterways altered reproductive behavior, anxiety levels, activity…

Modern apes smarter than pre-humans

New research from the University of Adelaide suggests living great apes are smarter than our pre-human…

Light at the end of the nanotunnel for future catalysts

Using a new type of nanoreactor, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have mapped catalytic…

Netherlands forced to slash speed limit to reduce emissions

The daytime motorway limit will be cut to 100km/h (62 mph) in a bid to tackle…

A milestone in ultrashort-pulse laser oscillators

With the demonstration of a sub-picosecond thin-disk laser oscillator delivering a record-high 350-watt average output power,…