Peanut growers could someday identify emerging threats such as drought, pests or disease by testing a…
Study finds small mammals aid expansion of warm-climate trees
A new study by Alessio Mortelliti, an assistant professor of wildlife habitat ecology at the University…
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…
Hubble Spots a Stunning Spiral
Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes. One of the key galaxy types we see in…
Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest
New Scientist was opposed to the Apollo missions from the start, and complained for decades that…
Shaken or stirred: robotic bartender serves up cocktails for Prague clubbers
For revelers at one Prague megaclub, gone are the days of being squashed at the bar…