MoEDAL hunts for dyons

A magnetic monopole is a theoretical particle with a magnetic charge. Give it an electric charge,…

65,000-year-old plant remains show the earliest Australians spent plenty of time cooking

Australia’s first people ate a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts and other plant foods, many…

Climate change could shrink vital tropical rainfall belt

A tropical rainfall belt providing critical summer rains to billions of people is at risk of…

Researchers report on helical soft-X-ray beams

Controlling the properties of light is of great importance for many areas of physics, including imaging…

Creating custom light using 2-D materials

Finding new semiconductor materials that emit light is essential for developing a wide range of electronic…

Do the climate effects of air pollution impact the global economy?

Aerosol emissions from burning coal and wood are dangerous to human health, but it turns out…

In acoustic waves, engineers break reciprocity with 'spacetime-varying metamaterials'

Reciprocity isn’t always a good thing. Click here for original story, In acoustic waves,…

CT scanning an ancient armored reptile

The aetosaurs were heavily armored reptiles that lived in many parts of the world in the…

LOFAR pioneers new way to study exoplanet environments

sing the Dutch-led Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope, astronomers have discovered unusual radio waves coming…

Correcting the jitters in quantum devices

Labs around the world are racing to develop new computing and sensing devices that operate on…