Cuba battles plague of giant snails

Silently and without pause, the giant African snail has been invading Cuba. Click here…

Telesat Canada Announces Pricing and Upsizing of Notes Offering

Telesat Canada (“Telesat”) today announced the pricing of an offering of US$550 million aggregate principal amount…

NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP analyzes record-setting hurricane Lorenzo

Over the weekend of Sept. 28 and 29, Hurricane Lorenzo attained Category 5 strength briefly, becoming…

Purple martin migration behavior perplexes researchers

Purple martins will soon migrate south for their usual wintertime retreat, but this time the birds…

Curved nanochannels allow independent tuning of charge and spin currents

To increase the efficiency of microchips, 3-D structures are now being investigated. However, spintronic components, which…

Meet Hugo: GHGSat Reveals the Name of its Third Emissions Monitoring Satellite

GHGSat, a private company which owns and operates the world’s first and only satellite designed to…

Team designs two-dimensional radar reflector to measure subtle ground movement

A Southwest Research Institute science and engineering team designed a two-dimensional radar retroreflector that remotely monitors…

Solar cells with new interfaces

Scientists from NUST MISIS (Russia) and University of Rome Tor Vergata found out that a microscopic…

Fish fathers exhibit signatures of 'baby brain' that may facilitate parental care behavior

Many new parents are familiar with terms like “baby brain” or “mommy brain” that hint at…

Scientists develop high-precision sensor based on laser-textured gold film

Scientists at Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with colleagues from Russia, Japan, and Australia have developed…