Hubble watches exploding star fade into oblivion

When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does…

Researchers hear more crickets and katydids 'singing in the suburbs'

The songs that crickets and katydids sing at night to attract mates can help in monitoring…

SpaceMat: Graphene's answer to recycling tire rubber launches to market

A Greater Manchester start-up company has launched the first of a range of products aimed at…

Record-breaking, floating laser resonator

Physical Review X recently reported on a new optical resonator from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology…

First tests for land­ing the Mar­tian Moons eX­plo­ration rover

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will have a German-French rover…

Electronic collars less effective than reward-based training, research finds

Training dogs with electronic collars is no more effective than traditional training methods, according to new…

12,000 years of parietal art in the Ojo Guareña karst complex

A team led by Ana Isabel Ortega Martínez, an archeologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación…

Earthquake forecasting clues unearthed in strange precariously balanced rocks

Precariously balanced rocks (PBRs) are formations found throughout the world where a slender boulder is balanced…

What tiny surfing robots teach us about surface tension

Propelled by chemical changes in surface tension, microrobots surfing across fluid interfaces lead researchers to new…

California has removed most obstacles to voting. Why are so many still not going to the polls?

A new report by the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy takes a historical view…