It's time to classify plastics as persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic pollutants, say researchers

A team of researchers from around the world is urging the international community to recognize the…

Thesis work analyzes air quality on the move

Jovan Aigbekaen was stuck in Friday afternoon rush hour traffic on Route 1 in New Jersey.…

Webb telescope finds towering plume of water escaping from one of Saturn's moons

Two Southwest Research Institute scientists were part of a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team that…

Sentencing child sex abusers: When the victim becomes the offender

Child sex abuse is one of the most heinous criminal offenses, so when a victim becomes…

Deriving a general expression for the bispectrum in cosmologies rules out most bouncing models

A team of cosmologists from the University of Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, Jagiellonian University and the University of…

Research project analyzes medical, nutritional and environmental applications of new Antarctic bacteria

A scientific collaboration between the University of São Paulo (USP) in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, and Clemente…

AI study finds the habit of continuous study was more widespread during lockdown

According to a study by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the Eurecat technology center and…

Code-switching in intercultural communication—Japanese vs. Chinese point of view

Osaka Metropolitan University scientists found that Japanese and Chinese, who are considered to have high-context cultures…

Study finds Neanderthals manufactured synthetic material with underground distillation

Researchers at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and colleagues in Germany have taken a closer…

DNA from 4,000-year-old plague discovered—the oldest cases to date in Britain

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified three 4,000-year-old British cases of Yersinia pestis, the…