Cleaner living through public housing: Access to land is a barrier to simpler, sustainable living

Many of us do not need to hear any more warnings from the IPCC, David Attenborough…

Research team reveals molecular program that controls cells' capacity for division

Cells in the body proliferate at different rates. Some divide constantly and throughout life, like the…

Quantum gravity's tangled time

The theories of quantum mechanics and gravity are notorious for being incompatible, despite the efforts of…

India has it right: nations either aim for the moon or get left behind in the space economy

India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has settled into lunar orbit, ahead of its scheduled moon landing on September…

Enzyme that helps protect us from stress linked to liver cancer growth

An enzyme induced by stress to help reduce production of damaging free radicals is also used…

Underground links between quakes and eruptions of Japan's biggest active volcano

To better understand subsurface processes associated with earthquakes and eruptions of Mount Aso, researchers investigated a…

There are way more species of horseshoe bats than scientists thought

Horseshoe bats are bizarre-looking animals with giant ears and elaborate flaps of skin on their noses…

Switching on the Atlantic Ocean heat pump

34 million years ago the warm ‘greenhouse climate’ of the dinosaur age ended and the colder…

Visualizing strong magnetic fields with neutrons

Researchers have developed a new method with which strong magnetic fields can be precisely measured. They…

Gravitational waves could settle mystery of the universe's expansion

Supernovae and the big bang’s afterglow give us conflicting numbers on how fast the universe is…