Researchers discover new transportation route for plant volatile compounds

Flowers use volatile compounds called terpenes to communicate with and protect themselves from the outside world.…

First look at NASA's completed spacecraft that will carry Mars 2020 rover

An engineer inspects the completed spacecraft that will carry NASA’s next Mars rover to the Red…

Producing F-18 radiopharmaceuticals for PET imaging

Recently ANSTO researchers have made progress investigating improved ways to make life-saving radiopharmaceuticals using the fluorine-18…

Intensive silviculture accelerates Atlantic rainforest biodiversity regeneration

An experiment conducted in Brazil in an area of Atlantic Rainforest suggests that intensive silviculture, including…

Greenpeace activists inside boxes block BP headquarters

Those inside the containers have enough food and water to last them for a week, it…

CDF podcast

NASA’s Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast interviews ESA engineer Torsten Bieler on the Agency’s Concurrent Design…

Nearly all states use drones for range of work

In Utah, drones are hovering near avalanches to watch roaring snow. In North Carolina, they’re searching…

ESA Open Days in Milan

Elementary and middle school children learned about Earth observation at the Living Planet Symposium in Milan…

Adieu, Le Grand K: The kilogram to be redefined for the first time in 130 years

In a subterranean vault in a suburb of Paris lies a small, rarely seen metal cylinder…

China's pig disease outbreak pushes up global pork prices

Pork lovers worldwide are wincing at prices that have jumped up to 40 percent as African…