For green cities to become mainstream, we need to learn from local success stories and scale up

Greening our cities has become one of the great global imperatives of the 21st century including…

Newfound kilometer-size asteroid orbits the sun every 151 days

Astronomers have spotted an unusual asteroid with the shortest “year” known for any asteroid. The rocky…

How solar heat drives rapid melting of parts of Antarctica's largest ice shelf

The ocean that surrounds Antarctica plays a crucial role in regulating the mass balance of the…

New app aims to automate drones for good

Researchers at Cranfield University have developed a smartphone app which can connect with off-the-shelf drones and…

How electronic skin could help people with disabilities

You might not know what they’re called, but you probably use them quite a lot. Virtual…

Cats kill more than 1.5 billion native Australian animals per year

Pet and feral cats together are killing over two billion reptiles, birds and mammals per year…

Djorgovski 2 is a moderately metal-poor globular cluster, study finds

Based on data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and from the Very Large Telescope (VLT),…

The benefits of an unconventional pairing: Sheep in a vineyard

In addition to sipping award-winning wines, visitors to Shelburne Vineyard in nearby Shelburne, Vermont, this spring…

Remodeling ruins to preserve rural heritage

Around 120 architecture students, including some from EPFL, took part in a unique workshop on Mount…

Discovering exoplanets with gravitational waves

In a recent paper in Nature Astronomy, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics…