New early warning system for self-driving cars

A team of researchers has developed a new early warning system for vehicles that uses artificial…

Remote monitoring could boost the use of nature-based solutions to safeguard against natural hazards

Remote monitoring using airborne devices such as drones or satellites could revolutionize the effectiveness of nature-based…

The egg in the X-ray beam

Scientists have been using DESY’s X-ray source PETRA III to analyse the structural changes that take…

Weird lava flows reveal the moon’s insides may be wetter than expected

Some dried lava flows on the moon have far more water bound up in the rocks…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover takes selfie with 'Mont Mercou'

At the start of March, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover began approaching an impressive rock formation that…

New oil palm map to inform policy and landscape-level planning

IIASA researchers have used Sentinel 1 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce a…

Water splitting for solar energy conversion

In order to enable large-scale hydrogen production using solar energy, particulate photocatalysts are being researched as…

Interstellar comet Borisov is the most pristine space object ever seen

The interstellar comet Borisov probably formed in the presence of giant planets, but it has never…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/30/2021

Payloads Confocal Space Microscopy: The crew removed the Confocal Space Microscopy Temp Logger and attached to…

Who will be among the first astronomers to peer into the universe with the Webb telescope?

Preparations are in full swing for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope this fall,…