How to develop a new generation of faster, cheaper and greener optical networks

A team of scientists has developed a novel circuit architecture for high-speed optical transceivers to facilitate…

Scientists conduct first census of viruses and bacteria living in Florida Springs

Like oxygen, your brain stem, and love (for the romantics out there), The Floridan Aquifer falls…

Bats find road traffic noise 'iritating', causing activity to decrease by two-thirds

A new study has shown that road traffic noise causes bat activity to decrease by about…

What drives us to blame the marginalized for epidemics?

Epidemics often bring a search for scapegoats, with anti-Asian harassment in the wake of COVID-19 the…

New app helps combat climate change

A few years ago, Dr. Arghavan Louhghalam, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UMass…

Advance could enable remote control of soft robots

Soft materials, such as rubber or polymers that can endure drastic changes to their shape, are…

Genetic tracing 'barcode' is rapidly revealing COVID-19's journey and evolution

Drexel University researchers have reported a method to quickly identify and label mutated versions of the…

Water heaters' methane leaks are high, but fixable

Natural gas escapes from water heating systems through leaks and because some is not combusted by…

Image: Mapping Chernobyl fires from space

With an outbreak of wildfires recently threatening the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the…

Study: Euro coins have antimicrobial activity, in contrast to banknotes

Research due to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases…