Building water-efficient cities

How much water single-family residences use is closely related to a community’s built environment, according to…

Nanowires replace Newton's famous glass prism

Scientists have designed an ultra-miniaturised device that could directly image single cells without the need for…

Synthetic biologists extend functional life of cancer fighting circuitry in microbes

Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a method to significantly extend the…

Breakdown in coral spawning places species at risk of extinction

Coral reefs are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems on our planet. But due to…

Scientists measure precise proton radius to help resolve decade-old puzzle

York University researchers have made a precise measurement of the size of the proton—a crucial step…

Largest-ever ancient-DNA study illuminates millennia of South and Central Asian prehistory

The largest-ever study of ancient human DNA, along with the first genome of an individual from…

Exotic physics phenomenon is observed for first time

An exotic physical phenomenon, involving optical waves, synthetic magnetic fields, and time reversal, has been directly…

Kīlauea lava fuels phytoplankton bloom off Hawai'i Island

When Kīlauea Volcano erupted in 2018, it injected millions of cubic feet of molten lava into…

Hurricane Dorian lashes Carolinas after Bahamas havoc

Hurricane Dorian, which reduced much of the northern Bahamas to rubble and left at least 20…

Satellite finds a 'hook' of heavy rainfall in Hurricane Juliette

From its vantage point in orbit around the Earth, when the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or…