40% of EU agricultural imports will be 'highly vulnerable' to drought by 2050

A trio of researchers has found that approximately 40% of agricultural products imported into the European…

The demonstration of hydrodynamic cloaking and shielding at the microscale

Researchers at Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, and IBM Research Europe have recently proposed…

This deep-sea creature is long-armed, bristling with teeth, and the sole survivor of 180 million years of evolution

Let me introduce you to Ophiojura, a bizarre deep-sea animal found in 2011 by scientists from…

Should ships in India switch to shore power?

Countries throughout Europe and North America require ships, when in port, to be attached to the…

Close-up look at brain uptake of omega-3

New details on the structure and function of a transport protein could help researchers develop drugs…

Amsterdam is a model for what tourism should look like after COVID

When COVID hit the Netherlands in 2020, Amsterdam emptied of visitors overnight. Long-term residents, inured to…

Coronaviruses can induce host cell apoptosis

A large team of researchers working at the University of Hong Kong has found that three…

Detoxifiers from the landfill

The production of chemicals is a cumbersome business. Often, only a small part of what is…

Greenhouse gas data deep dive reaches new level of 'reasonable and true'

For the most accurate accounting of a product’s environmental impact, scientists look at the product’s entire…

Defining the Hund physics landscape of two-orbital systems

Electrons are ubiquitous among atoms, subatomic tokens of energy that can independently change how a system…