Chinese astronomers investigate spectral behavior of gamma-ray blazar S5 0716+714

Using the Lijiang Observatory, astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have inspected a gamma-ray…

Uncovering the acoustical properties of Stonehenge

A trio of researchers, two with the University of Salford, the third with English Heritage, has…

Weapons not used by U.K. officers in majority of police incidents involving force, data suggests

Weapons were not used in the majority of police incidents where officers had to use force,…

Open access resource provides most comprehensive library for biological protein interactions

Researchers looking for up to date information about protein interactions within cells will benefit from a…

A 'bang' in LIGO and Virgo detectors signals most massive gravitational-wave source yet

For all its vast emptiness, the universe is humming with activity in the form of gravitational…

Heaviest black hole merger is among three recent gravitational wave discoveries

Scientists observed what appears to be a bulked-up black hole tangling with a more ordinary one.…

Environmental factors shape ammonia-oxidizer community patterns in soils from Tibetan wetlands

Ammonia oxidation, which depends on the activity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB), plays essential…

Diversifying crop rotations improves environmental outcomes while keeping farms profitable

A new study from researchers at the University of Minnesota and Iowa State University finds that…

Super-resolution imaging with diagonal sampling

The charge-coupled device (CCD) revolutionized photography by enabling the capture of light electronically, as recognized by…

Scientists find new way to measure important beam property

For a wide variety of high-powered scientific instruments, from free-electron lasers to wakefield accelerators to electron…