New guide offers support and advice to researchers experiencing online harassment

A newly redeveloped guide is setting out to help researchers across academia tackle the online harassment…

A tool to understand how ecosystems are responding to a changing climate

As climate change accelerates, recording shifts in plant flowering times is critical to understanding how changes…

Grouping 'smart cities' into types may help aspiring city planners find a path

A comparative analysis of “smart cities” worldwide reveals four distinct types, according to an international team…

A filament fit for space—silk is proven to thrive in outer space temperatures

Their initial discovery had seemed like a contradiction because most other polymer fibres embrittle in the…

Five things to know about plastic waste and recycling in India

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pursuing an ambitious project to phase out single-use plastics by…

Inventing the world's strongest silver

A team of scientists has made the strongest silver ever—42 percent stronger than the previous world…

Researchers repurpose failed cancer drug into printable semiconductor

Many potential pharmaceuticals end up failing during clinical trials, but thanks to new research from the…

Soaring eagle films crumbling Alpine glaciers as Earth warms

The images will be stunningly beautiful yet also hint of dire future consequences. Filmed with a…

Groundwater pumping could 'devastate' river systems

Rampant and unsustainable extraction of groundwater reserves crucial for food production will “critically impact” rivers, lakes…

NASA's space geodesy project mapping out a bright future

In April 2019, an international team of more than 300 scientists unveiled the first recorded images…