Experiment suggests the best ways to tackle invasive Oregon grape in Belgian coastal dunes

The Belgian coastal dunes, a protected habitat of high conservation value, are getting severely impacted by…

Groups work better when stakes are gradually increased

A gradual approach to increasing the stakes of group coordination projects can improve overall team performance,…

Government regimes may be learning new Twitter tactics to quash dissent

When protesters use social media to attract attention and unify, people in power may respond with…

NASA's Operation IceBridge completes 11 years of polar surveys

For eleven years from 2009 through 2019, the planes of NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew above the…

A way to 'fingerprint' human cells

Researchers say a new method to analyse data from individual human cells could be a step-change…

New study identifies barriers to conservation success

Inability to find or retain skilled staff and issues around local community buy-in are just some…

Revealing the physics of the Sun with Parker Solar Probe

Nearly a year and a half into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned gigabytes of…

Earth was stressed before dinosaur extinction

New evidence gleaned from Antarctic seashells confirms that Earth was already unstable before the asteroid impact…

Teams of microbes are at work in our bodies. Researchers have figured out what they're up to.

In the last decade, scientists have made tremendous progress in understanding that groups of bacteria and…

Azteca ant colonies move the same way leopards' spots form

What could Azteca ants in coffee farms in Mexico have in common with leopards’ spots and…