Uganda army fights voracious desert locusts

Under a warm morning sun scores of weary soldiers stare as millions of yellow locusts rise…

New study results consistent with dog domestication during Ice Age

Analysis of Paleolithic-era teeth from a 28,500-year-old fossil site in the Czech Republic provides supporting evidence…

New class of enzymes could lead to bespoke diets, therapeutics

Everyone seems to have an opinion about which foods to eat or avoid, how to lose…

Engineers devise a decision map to identify the best mission type to deflect an incoming asteroid

On April 13, 2029, an icy chunk of space rock, wider than the Eiffel Tower is…

Coronavirus outbreak slashes China carbon emissions: study

The coronavirus epidemic that has paralysed the Chinese economy may have a silver lining for the…

Image: International Space Station transits the moon

Say cheese. Click here for original story, Image: International Space Station transits the moon …

Time-resolved measurement in a memory device

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Findings from NASA's Juno update Jupiter water mystery

NASA’s Juno mission has provided its first science results on the amount of water in Jupiter’s…

Random gene pulsing generates patterns of life

A team of Cambridge scientists working on the intersection between biology and computation has found that…

Mussels 'cooked alive' in balmy New Zealand ocean

Up to half a million mussels were effectively cooked in the wild in unusually balmy waters…