Commentary: It's not too late to save the birds of North America

Over three weeks starting Saturday, thousands of birders in the Western Hemisphere will take part in…

Plasma ionization-based 3-D titania nanofiber-like webs to enhance bioreactivity and osteoconductivity of biomaterials

In a new study published on Scientific Reports, Mohammad-Hossein Beigi and a research team in the…

Polymer-based optical fiber for visualization of material stress

Fiber-optic strain sensing is known for its ability to monitor large areas. However, most types of…

How to use entanglement for long-distance or free-space quantum communication

Entanglement, once called “spooky action at a distance” by Einstein, is the phenomenon in which the…

2017 meteor was a 'grazing fireball'

A team of researchers at Curtin University in Australia reports that a meteor that streaked across…

Astronomers present a concept for the next NASA flagship mission

Astronomers are making the case for a new mission to search for Earth-like planets outside our…

New collection of maps and datascapes capturing the spatial consequences of climate change

In September of 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech urging that the United States…

A new tool tidies up molecules at the nano level

Tidying up. Not an idea associated with living cells on the nanoscale. But just as a…

Halting climate change means a world without fossil fuels—not merely curbing emissions

A new study by two University of Toronto researchers is proposing a different way to think…

'Chicken-and-egg' relationship between mantle-located superplumes and surface-located supercontinents

Curtin University researchers suggest a “chicken-and-egg” relationship exists between the Earth’s mantle-located superplumes and surface-located supercontinents,…