Image: Hera logo aboard ISS

The logo for Hera, ESA’s proposed asteroid mission for planetary defense, has already reached space, thanks…

An ultra-fast optical way to extract critical information from quantum materials

Topological insulators are quantum materials, which, due to their exotic electronic structure, on surfaces and edges…

Quantum vacuum: Less than zero energy

Energy is a quantity that must always be positive—at least that’s what our intuition tells us.…

Elon Musk's Starship may be more moral catastrophe than bold step in space exploration

Elon Musk, founder of private space-faring company SpaceX, recently unveiled his new Starship craft. Amazingly, it…

New 3-D printing technique for biomaterials

A new way of 3-D printing soft materials such as gels and collagens offers a major…

Chimpanzees are being killed by poachers – researchers like us are on the frontline protecting them

On a sunny day in early August 2019, screams broke the calm of a national park…

The impact of communal irrigation systems on earthquake-triggered landslides in Indonesia

New research from Royal Holloway, University of London, has found that changes to the environment caused…

Caught in the act: Proteins responsible for metastasis

Research by Assoc. Prof. Nurhan Özlü of Koç University Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and…

Scientists predict average late winter precipitation in western Europe for the next decade

In a new study, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) show that the…

Researchers find some of the genes responsible for differences in behavior between dog breeds

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has found some of the…