Unlocking secrets of the ice worm

The ice worm is one of the largest organisms that spends its entire life in ice…

Frontline heroes hailed in the war against devil cancers

Residents of Tasmania’s D’Entrecasteaux Channel Peninsula, Kingborough and Huon Valley communities are being hailed as the…

Marseille closes some beaches to swimming amid pollution concerns

France’s second city and key tourist hub Marseille has enforced temporary swimming bans on several beaches…

EU probes whether US Broadcom hindered competition

The European Union opened Wednesday an investigation to determine whether US semi-conductor giant Broadcom may be…

Monte Carlo simulations for neutron experiments

Achieving a good signal-to-background ratio in neutron scattering experiments is a crucial factor in instrument and…

Islands on the Air Announces Another Six New Island Groups

The Islands on the Air (IOTA) Amateur Radio awards program announced six new island entities at…

The observation of topologically protected magnetic quasiparticles

A team of researchers from Tohoku University, J-PARC, and Tokyo Institute of Technology conducted an in-depth…

Facebook's Libra has staggering potential: State control of money could end

The UN recognises 180 currencies worldwide as legal tender, all of them issued by nation states.…

Knowing what leads to building collapses can help make African cities safer

It’s a sadly familiar image in several developing countries’ media reports: people frantically searching the rubble…

Hubble is the ultimate multitasker: Discovering asteroids while it's doing other observations

It looks like a poster of the famous Hubble Deep Field, marked with white streaks by…