Graphenes now go monolayer and single crystalline

IBS-CMCM scientists have reported a truly single layer (i.e., adlayer-free) large area graphene film on large…

Code in Chinese surveillance app analysed

Computer security researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), in collaboration with the association of investigative journalists from…

Image: 400-hectare wildfire is largest ever in German state

On 30 June, a wildfire broke out at a military training site in Lübtheen, in northern…

Winter monsoons became stronger during geomagnetic reversal

New evidence suggests that high-energy particles from space known as galactic cosmic rays affect the Earth’s…

New study analyzes land tenure in Ghana

In August 2018, the local government of Accra, Ghana, in West Africa, appropriated 1,800 homes for…

Being certain about uncertainty

Non-scientists—legislators, judges and juries—are often called upon to reach scientific conclusions. Click here for…

Every dog has its day, but it's not the Fourth of July

The Fourth of July can be a miserable day for dogs. The fireworks make scaredy-cats out…

NASA's ECOSTRESS maps European heat wave from space

Europe’s massive heat wave is on its way out—and it’s leaving a slew of broken temperature…

Scientists scramble to build payload for 2021 moon landing

Scavenging spare parts and grabbing off-the-shelf hardware, University of California, Berkeley, space scientists are in a…

The 'freak wave' myth

As a nation “girt by sea,” Australians live with the joy and risks of the ocean. …