Study: People who use food banks live in substandard and unaffordable homes

Once relatively unheard of in the UK, the number of food banks has grown dramatically in…

A unique experiment: exploring black holes with LISA and Athena

What happens when two supermassive black holes collide? In this video, ESA scientists Paul McNamara and…

Better social skills in pigs found to result in reduced length of rank fights

A small team of researchers from Scotland’s Rural College, the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna and…

Apple's iPhone sales slump while China's Huawei gains

Apple’s biggest cash cow, the iPhone, continued to suffer weaker sales around the world in first…

Experts develop nanolasers on silicon

Researchers at Cardiff University have shown tiny light-emitting nanolasers less than a tenth of the size…

A leap into the continuum

Computing the dynamics of many interacting quantum particles accurately is a daunting task. There is however…

A wind tunnel designed to simulate the dusty surface of Mars

Part of Aarhus University’s Mars Simulation Laboratory in Denmark, this wind tunnel has been specially designed…

Record-breaking chaotic data transmission

Engineers in China have used a chaos-based system to pipe data securely through a fibre-optic at…

Photometric observations detect 28 new variable stars in NGC 4147

Using the Devasthal optical telescope in India, astronomers have conducted photometric observations of the globular cluster…

Is China's social credit system coming to Australia?

Privacy was not a hot topic in the recent Australian election, but it should have been.…