The cultural significance of carbon-storing peatlands to rural communities

A group of UK and Peruvian researchers have carried out the first detailed study of how…

Novespace microgravity experiment to make Zero-G Spider-Man

Gravity: We can live with it, and it turns out we can live without it, for…

Quantum communication: making two from one

In the future, quantum physics could become the guarantor of secure information technology. To achieve this,…

Stellar waltz with dramatic ending

Astronomers at the University of Bonn and their colleagues from Moscow have identified an unusual celestial…

A better way to use atomic force microscopy to image molecules in 3-D

A team of researchers at Justus Liebig University Giessen has found a way to dramatically improve…

From Day Into Night on the International Space Station

A couple times a year, the International Space Station orbit happens to align over the day/night…

Researchers develop the first functional non-native metal hydrogenase

Hydrogenases are enzymes that catalyze hydrogen activation. There are three types of hydrogenases in nature, all…

Life and death in bacterial communities

The coastal waters of the Red Sea have enough resources to support bacterial growth, but predation…

2-metre sea level rise 'plausible' by 2100: study

Global sea levels could rise by two metres (6.5 feet) and displace tens of millions of…

Rhinoceros at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo gives birth to calf

Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo says an eastern black rhinoceros named Kapuki has given birth to a…