Species conservation: some success, many failures

With as many as a million species threatened with extinction due to mankind's destruction of the…

New material to pave the way for more efficient electronic devices

Researchers at the University of Bristol have successfully demonstrated the high thermal conductivity of a new…

Apple removing or restricting apps for controlling screen time

Apple's removal of nearly a dozen apps that help users manage screen time raises questions about…

Google workers protest ‘culture of retaliation’ with sit-in

Google employees staged a sit-in Wednesday to protest what they call a "culture of retaliation" at…

A 3-D reconstruction of the fossil allowed for the description of an entirely new suborder

Even though we are led to believe that during the Cretaceous the Earth used to be…

3-D printing of biological tissue

The future of medicine is biological – and scientists hope we will soon be using 3-D-printed…

India prepares for ‘extremely severe’ Bay of Bengal cyclone

Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated along India's eastern coast on Thursday as authorities braced…

A leap forward in estimating crop water use

To conserve and manage fresh water, particularly in arid regions such as Saudi Arabia, it is…

LIGO and Virgo detect neutron star smash-ups

On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European-based…

Microplastics accumulate in hotspots for deep-sea life

Research published earlier in the week reveals that microplastics often accumulate on the deep sea floor…