Moving diagnostics out of the lab and into your hand

Handheld electrochemical sensors are part of the daily routine for millions of people with diabetes around…

'Messy' production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency

Scientists at the University of Cambridge studying perovskite materials for next generation solar cells and flexible…

Why tyranny could be the inevitable outcome of democracy

Plato, one of the earliest thinkers and writers about democracy, predicted that letting people govern themselves…

What's the story, morning glory? Taxonomy, evolution and sweet potatoes

This indicates that the storage root was an already-existing trait that predisposed the plant for cultivation…

Evolutionary diversity is associated with Amazon forest productivity

An international team of researchers led by the University of Leeds have revealed for the first…

Digitised faces reduce shoplifting risk at self-service checkouts

Digitised human-like faces at supermarket self-service checkouts may reduce the risk of shoplifting, according to an…

How religions shape the environmental movement in Indonesia

Young environmental activist Greta Thunberg’s famous quote “listen to the scientists”, during her meeting with the…

A cosmopolitan city

In a new excavation project undertaken by German and Italian researchers, LMU archaeologists Paul Scheding and…

Image: Hubble touts a team of stars

Within a galaxy hosting around 300 billion stars, here the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured…

Expedition to Peru captures climate history trapped in ice—before it is gone

From the summit of Huascarán, the highest mountain in Earth’s tropics, the valleys of the western…