Study discovers how primordial bacteria adapted to arsenic

If you could borrow H.G. Wells’ time machine and travel back three billion years, it would…

How could an explosive Big Bang be the birth of our universe?

How can a Big Bang have been the start of the universe, since intense explosions destroy…

Team makes breakthrough in separation science with sub-Angstrom precision

An international research team that includes Vanderbilt engineers is the first to successfully separate two ions…

Going overboard? Investors prefer directors who serve on fewer corporate boards

Corporate directors, like most businesspeople, are busy—but according to investors, they can, in fact, be too…

Asteroid grazes path of satellites in geostationary ring

A reasonably small 4-8 m asteroid recently flew by Earth, passing close to satellites orbiting in…

COVID-19: Half of UK households believe they will struggle to meet their financial commitments over the next 3 months

In the first three weeks after the UK government introduced the ‘lockdown’, an estimated 7 million…

Hubble's impactful life alongside space debris

During its 30 years in orbit around Earth, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has witnessed the…

Earth flyby opens new science opportunities for BepiColombo

Science instruments aboard the European-Japanese Mercury explorer BepiColombo are in excellent condition to gather high-quality data…

In search of the lighting material of the future

At the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, researchers have gained insights into a promising material for organic…

Carbon dioxide emissions from dry inland waters globally underestimated

Inland waters such as rivers, lakes and reservoirs play an important role in the global carbon…