Does restorative justice help or harm victims?

Research from Royal Holloway has evaluated the effectiveness of restorative justice (RJ) in reducing symptoms of…

Researchers investigate ultrafast reaction of superfluid helium triggered by extreme ultraviolet laser pulses

A team headed by Professor Frank Stienkemeier at Freiburg’s Institute of Physics and Dr. Marcel Mudrich,…

Suffocating ozone—policies that stem emission of precursor chemicals save lives and crops

Nitrogen, volatile organic compounds and sunlight are the three ingredients that form the smog that regularly…

The religious battle over birth control and the unpleasant motivation that fueled it

Concerns around sex and gender have divided American religious groups for more than a century, but…

Researchers create 'artificial cartilage' that can repair itself

New hydrogel made from forestry and fishing waste could help replace petroleum-based products from contact lenses…

Researcher helps fill in the family tree of the shy mountain beaver

The long-held notion that today’s muskrat-sized mountain beavers are primitive and look like their ancestors is…

A season in hell: Bushfires push at least 20 threatened species closer to extinction

Images of desperate, singed koalas in blackened landscapes have come to symbolize the damage to nature…

Intrinsic quantized anomalous Hall effect in a moiré heterostructure

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect can combine topology and magnetism to produce precisely quantized Hall…

New clues to help explain how a 2,600-year-old brain survived to modern times

An international team of researchers has found a clue to explain how a 2,600-year-old brain could…

There's plenty we can do to make future fires less likely

One of the dominant ideas buzzing around the internet is that there’s little we can do…