Workers remain exploited in garment and cocoa industries

The UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015 and anti-slavery commitments by major firms are having little impact…

New study shows legacy of DDT to lake ecosystems

New findings of a multi-university research team show the pesticide DDT persists in remote lakes at…

A homing beacon for chemotherapy drugs

Killing tumor cells while sparing their normal counterparts is a central challenge of cancer chemotherapy. If…

Euclid Dark Energy Telescope Selects Deep Fields

Peering at three dark patches of sky for long periods will allow the Euclid mission to…

Researchers discover new nanoparticles with exclusively lateral light scattering

An international team of physicists has produced first evidence of particles capable of scattering light in…

New result in hunt for mysterious magnetic monopoles

Cutting a magnet in half yields two magnets, each with its own north and south pole.…

Bowland hen harrier chicks give 'hope for future'

Chicks hatching for the second year on an estate is good news for the endangered species,…

Hera asteroid mission's brain to be radiation-hard and failure-proof

At the heart of ESA’s Hera mission to the double Didymos asteroids will be an onboard…

Framework predicts endangered species' pathogen risk

Four years ago, more than 200,000 endangered saiga antelope dropped dead on the remote steppe grassland…

New photography technique brings hidden history of fossils to light

We’ve all seen and marveled at them: perfect fossils of gargantuan dinosaurs or other exotic creatures…