Space-based radar suggests North Korean nuke equivalent to '17 Hiroshimas'

North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It subsequently…

Faroe Islands to 'close' for a weekend to protect environment

Authorities in the Faroe Islands have announced the archipelago in the North Atlantic will be “closed…

Old dogs, new tricks: 10,000 pets needed for science

Can old dogs teach us new tricks? Scientists are looking for 10,000 pets for the largest-ever…

Rampant misclassifications make bond mutual funds appear far less risky, significantly impacting investors, study shows

Some mutual fund managers appear to be overestimating the safety of their holdings, resulting in misclassifications…

Image: Sentinel-3 captures bushfires raging in Australia

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured the multiple bushfires burning across Australia’s east coast. Around 150 fires…

How to make better biofuels? Convince yeast it's not starving

Yeast already helps make bread and beer and cranks out the biofuel ethanol, but scientists believe…

Large storage potential in future ice-free glacier basins

Glaciologists at ETH Zurich and WSL assessed the global water storage and hydropower potential that could…

Climate change fueled the rise and demise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, superpower of the ancient world

Ancient Mesopotamia, the fabled land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the command and…

Quantum transition makes electrons behave as if they lack spin

The common phase transitions are those that occur as a function of temperature variation. Ice changes…

Research brings better news for European ash trees

For the past decade the outlook has been gloomy for European ash trees devastated by Ash…