Powering the future with lunar soil

Building a lunar base would be one of the next logical steps in our exploration of…

Helping robots to build new antibiotics

A team from The University of Manchester have engineered a common gut bacterium to produce a…

New measurements imply dramatically higher abundance of helium hydride ions in the early universe

Physicists report the first laboratory measurements of electron reactions with helium hydride ions in the cryogenic…

Scientists discover group of genes connected to longer life in fruit flies

Alexey Moskalev, Ph.D., Head of the Laboratory of Geroprotective and Radioprotective technologies and co-authors from the…

Adding a polymer stabilizes collapsing metal-organic frameworks

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a special class of sponge-like materials with nano-sized pores. The nanopores lead…

Hawaii telescope protesters don't back down after arrests

Protesters didn’t back down from their long-running effort to stop construction of a $1.4 billion telescope,…

Canadian platform spills 3,200 gallons of oil-mix into Atlantic

An oil platform off the Canadian island of Newfoundland spilled nearly 3,200 gallons of an oil-water…

Great Barrier Reef agency breaks with Australia gvt in climate warning

The agency that manages the Great Barrier Reef broke ranks with Australia’s conservative government to call…

Swine fever sends China's pork prices, imports soaring

Pork prices have been sent soaring and herds devastated as African swine fever tears through China’s…

Nations with strong women's rights likely to have better population health and faster growth

Nations with strong women’s rights are more likely to have better health and faster growth than…