Sixth right whale death in Canadian waters sets researchers on urgent mission for solutions

There is a growing urgency to identify where endangered North Atlantic right whales are migrating, say…

Earth to Mars in 100 days: The power of nuclear rockets

The solar system is a really big place, and it takes forever to travel from world…

Scientists alarmed by bark beetle boom

Bark beetles are currently responsible for killing an unprecedented number of trees in forests across Europe…

Edible insects could be a key ingredient to avoiding a global food crisis, researchers insist

Edible insects could be a key ingredient to avoiding a global food crisis, according to a…

Embracing bioinformatics in gene banks

The preservation of plant biodiversity is the task of the roughly 1,750 gene banks distributed around…

Nature-based solutions: The missing ingredient in climate adaptation?

The upcoming United Nations Climate Action Summit in September 2019 will attempt to bring about transformative…

Research shows governance is key to better resource management strategies

For resource managers charged with maintaining important assets like croplands or fisheries, quantitative modeling is a…

Physicists OK commercial graphene for T-wave detection

Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Valiev Institute of Physics…

Scientists control the electrical characteristics of optical memory devices

A group of researchers from Skoltech, the Institute for Problems of Chemical Physics of RAS, and…

Drone transmits uncompressed 4K video in real time using millimeter wave tech

SECOM and Tokyo Institute of Technology have jointly developed a millimeter-wave wireless communication system that enables…