North Korea Seen Expanding Rocket Launch Facility It Once Promised To Dismantle

Satellite imagery shared exclusively with NPR suggests that North Korea is moving ahead with plans to…

Double-walled nanotubes have electro-optical advantages

Theorists find that flexoelectric effects in double-walled carbon nanotubes could be highly useful for photovoltaic applications. …

Quantum copycat: Researchers find a new way in which bosons behave like fermions

When a one-dimensional gas of strongly interacting bosons expands, the velocity distribution of the bosons transforms…

In Earth's largest extinction, land animal die-offs began long before marine extinction

Because of poor dates for land fossils laid down before and after the mass extinction at…

UK local authorities not ready for the number of deaths from Covid-19

Even if fatality rates are at the lower end of expectations — one percent of virus…

Copper boosts pig growth, and now we know why

Pigs have better feed conversion rates with copper in their diets, but until now, scientists didn’t…

Gene mutation enhances cognitive flexibility in mice

Researchers have discovered in mice what they believe is the first known genetic mutation to improve…

Seafloor of Fram Strait is a sink for microplastic from Arctic and North Atlantic Ocean

Working in the Arctic Fram Strait, scientists have found microplastic throughout the water column with particularly…

AIAA Statement on Passage of $2.2 Trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act

AIAA Statement on Passage of $2.2 Trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act …

Standardizing COVID-19 data analysis to aid international research efforts

Researchers have launched a new database to advance the international research efforts studying COVID-19. The publicly-available,…