LightSail 2 is sending home new pictures of Earth

LightSail 2, the brainchild of the Planetary Society, has released two new gorgeous images of Earth.…

How a drilling ship pulls cores from 2.5 miles below the sea

An ocean drilling ship is not an ocean drilling ship without the skilled and experienced personnel…

Seeing smaller through cells: A natural single-cell biomagnifier for subwavelength imaging

Optical microscopes and tweezers can image and manipulate objects at the microscale for applications in cellular…

Animals' body sizes shrinking from climate change, study finds

University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers have collected clear evidence—over a 23 year period between 1976…

How do distance learners connect?

In a typical college classroom, social connections are formed through face-to-face interactions. Through informal chats before…

Is New Zealand's food system unsustainable?

New research from Massey University’s College of Health shows overwhelming support for sustainability characteristics to be…

Wool odor could be key to protecting sheep from flystrike

A global research project led by The University of Western Australia in collaboration with the Department…

New software helps plant breeders bring out their best

Broccoli is in the eye of the beholder. A head of broccoli that might appeal to…

More Basra water crises unless Iraq govt fixes 'failures': HRW

Human Rights Watch on Monday warned of a repeat of last year’s deadly water crisis in…

Portugal wildfires '90 percent' under control

Huge wildfires that have ravaged a mountainous region of central Portugal and left dozens injured have…