Star Wars: The evolution of the Death Star reflects Hollywood's growing fears of a climate apocalypse

Science fiction films are rarely about the future. Their distant planets and remote time periods instead…

Uganda offers lessons in tapping the power of solid waste

In places where municipalities continuously fail to collect and manage waste, authorities tend to concentrate their…

Trauma-informed classrooms can better support kids in care

As teachers return to school, they’re thinking about the students who they’ll be getting to know.…

Barn owls reflect moonlight in order to stun their prey

Ecosystems that are bathed in light during the day change profoundly at night. As the sun…

Polar EU Cancri investigated with Kepler spacecraft

Using NASA’s prolonged Kepler spacecraft mission, known as K2, astronomers have investigated a peculiar polar designated…

Scientists recommend procedures for the protection of the oceans

Together with an international team, Senckenberg scientist Angelika Brandt has published an inventory of the current…

How the limits of the mind shape human language

When we speak, our sentences emerge as a flowing stream of sound. Unless we are really…

Deadly Hurricane Dorian parks itself over the Bahamas

Practically parking itself over the Bahamas for a day and a half, Hurricane Dorian pounded away…

The role of environmental factors and internal regulation in determining the growth of an organism

The body size of a living creature has a direct impact on its fitness—from the simplest…

World's smallest accelerometer points to new era in wearables, gaming

In what could be a breakthrough for body sensor and navigation technologies, researchers at KTH have…