Researchers unveil new volcanic eruption forecasting technique

Volcanic eruptions and their ash clouds pose a significant hazard to population centers and air travel,…

Image: Australian bushfires

Australia is tackling multiple bushfires that have broken out across New South Wales and Queensland over…

Researchers develop app to detect areas most vulnerable to life-threatening haze

Forest and land-use fires are ravaging Indonesia’s Sumatra and Kalimantan islands. Haze from these fires threatens…

Urban growth, heat islands, humidity, climate change: Costs multiply in tropical cities

Some 60% of the planet’s expected urban area by 2030 is yet to be built. This…

New method for material research gets hundred times stronger

Researchers from the Faculty of Science at the University of Oulu have increased the sensitivity of…

Molecular dynamics simulation sheds new light on methane hydrate formation

In a paper published this week in PNAS, researchers at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ‘t…

Astronomers investigate an unusual massive gas-rich galaxy

Russian astronomers have observed UGC 1378—an unusual, massive gas-rich galaxy with extended gaseous and low-surface brightness…

To save honey bees we need to design them new hives

Honey bees are under extreme pressure. The number of honey bee colonies in the US has…

Rare pictures uncover diverse marine life at Ningaloo Reef

Researchers at The University of Western Australia have collected rare imagery revealing rich marine biodiversity at…

Wild mountain gorillas found to play in water like humans

A team of researchers from Kyoto University, Primate Cognition Research Group and Conservation through Public Health,…