Survey of U.S academic libraries documents COVID-19 pandemic responses

When universities began closing their campuses and going to online classes in response to the COVID-19…

Food stockpiling: Consumers should cut down food waste

More than three quarters of New Zealand’s retail food waste is being saved from landfill, in…

Opinion: Lessons of the epidemic for small government

The coronavirus emergency is a brutal reminder that we pay a price for deregulating society in…

COVID-19 bears out the research: Music brings people together (socially and virtually)

In the early days of the pandemic reaching Europe, the world watched as Italians emerged onto…

Energy-harvesting design aims to turn Wi-Fi signals into usable power

Any device that sends out a Wi-Fi signal also emits terahertz waves —electromagnetic waves with a…

Space opera: New original songs add to the fun for space-loving music fans

Devotees of electronic music are snapping up space-enabled creative content as they collect unique digital keepsakes…

Image: Rice fields in Vietnam from orbit

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over part of the Mekong Delta—a major rice-producing region in…

Free-floating stars in the Milky Way's bulge

The path of a light beam is bent by the presence of mass, as explained by…

Machine learning puts a new spin on spin models

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used machine learning to analyze spin models, which are used…

Physicists develop new photon source for tap-proof communication

An international team with the participation of Prof. Dr. Michael Kues from the Cluster of Excellence…