Data collected by an observatory in Antarctica has produced our first view of the Milky Way…
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Photonic chip transforms single beam of light into multiple beams, each with a panoply of different properties
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a photonic circuit on…
Satellite-based disaster early warning systems can improve evacuation measures in remote Asian communities
Communities in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Mongolia, where conventional ground-based telecommunication systems have limited reach, are prone…
Alone in a dark cave: What can we learn from extreme survival experiments?
Why do humans undertake journeys of personal exploration, or subject themselves to challenging conditions for long…
Tomography and radiocarbon dating used to examine Australian Aboriginal knife
A number of sophisticated non-invasive nuclear and accelerator techniques were used to provide information about the…
Now that President Biden's student loan cancelation program has been canceled, here's what's next
The Supreme Court has struck down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan. In Biden v.…
EU's carbon border tax: A new report shows Africa stands to lose US$25 billion every year
A new European law that imposes the first ever carbon border tax in the world comes…
Waste disposal in Nigeria is a mess: How Lagos can take the lead in sorting and recycling
Nigeria, like many other Sub-Saharan Africa countries, has a waste management problem. The Nigerian National Municipal…
'Traffic control' system for mucin and insulin secretion identified
Researchers from the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have published a study in the…
How the UK's largest water company came to be flooded with debt and what it means for taxpayers
Thames Water is reportedly on the brink of collapse. The UK’s largest water company, well known…