China Sky Eye, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, is now fully operational

China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, known as FAST, is the world’s most sensitive listening device.…

22 million pounds of plastics enter the Great Lakes each year

On a sunny August morning at 31st Street Beach, Tyrone Dobson assembled 20 volunteers to pick…

Amazon countries seal pact against destruction of rainforest

Countries of South America’s Amazon region on Friday announced measures for its preservation following devastating wildfires…

Researchers unearth 'new' extinction

A team of scientists has concluded that earth experienced a previously underestimated severe mass-extinction event, which…

Researchers develop new interferometric single-molecule localization microscopy

Various image-based central position estimation (termed “centroid fitting”) methods such as 2-D Gaussian fitting methods have…

The ever-winning lottery ticket: Mathematicians solve a dusty mystery

Is there a lottery ticket that always wins? So goes the popular version of a theoretical…

Hidden danger from pet dogs in Africa

Dogs in tropical Africa run the risk of contracting canine trypanosomosis if they are bitten by…

Cheap water treatment

There’s nothing new in treating water by sorption of organic solvents such as trichloroethylene (TCE). But…

Precious metal flecks could be catalyst for better cancer therapies

Tiny extracts of a precious metal used widely in industry could play a vital role in…

Tiny capsules offer alternative to viral delivery of gene therapy

New tools for editing genetic code offer hope for new treatments for inherited diseases, some cancers,…