Urban land could grow fruit and veg for 15 per cent of the population, research shows

Growing fruit and vegetables in just 10 per cent of a city’s gardens and other urban…

Waves in thin air with broad effects

Mars has a very thin atmosphere, with nearly one hundredth the density of ours on Earth,…

Long-distance fiber link poised to create powerful networks of optical clocks

An academic-industrial team in Japan has connected three laboratories in a 100-kilometer region with an optical…

Plant water saving system works like clockwork, it transpires

Plants, just like humans, have circadian clocks that allow them to tell the time. In humans…

Emissions of several ozone-depleting chemicals are larger than expected

In 2016, scientists at MIT and elsewhere observed the first signs of healing in the Antarctic…

Fast reconnection in turbulent media

Solar flares, similar to many other astrophysical energetic processes, are related to magnetic reconnection. During these…

Tropical Cyclone Herold's eye opens further on NASA satellite imagery

As Tropical Cyclone Herold intensified, its eye appeared more defined in imagery taken by NASA’s Terra…

Bacterial enzyme could become a new target for antibiotics

MIT and Harvard University chemists have discovered the structure of an unusual bacterial enzyme that can…

Mysterious ancient sea-worm pegged as new genus after half-century in 'wastebasket'

When a partial fossil specimen of a primordial marine worm was unearthed in Utah in 1969,…

Composing new proteins with artificial intelligence

Proteins are the building blocks of life, and consequently, scientists have long studied how they can…