As climate changes, small increases in rainfall may cause widespread road outages

As more rain falls on a warming planet, a new computer model shows that it may…

Antenna for Proba-3

This patch antenna under test at ESA’s technical heart is designed to maintain a radio link…

Australia regulator blocks massive TPG-Vodafone merger

Australian regulators on Wednesday blocked the multi-billion-dollar merger between Vodafone Hutchison Australia and TPG Telecom, in…

US regulators under scrutiny as they look to punish Facebook

Federal privacy regulators are under scrutiny in Congress as they negotiate a record fine with Facebook…

Study shows cell’s cytoskeleton does more than hold up a cell, it transfers energy

Dysfunctions and malformations in the scaffold of a cell are thought to contribute to heart muscle…

New legal data traces almost 11 years of state ‘zero tolerance’ school discipline policies

A new legal dataset published on LawAtlas.org today shows shifts and trends in state-level "zero tolerance"…

Research team finds new ways to generate stem cells more efficiently

Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are among the most important tools in modern biomedical research, leading…

Move over, silicon switches: There’s a new way to compute

Logic and memory devices, such as the hard drives in computers, now use nanomagnetic mechanisms to…

Siemens on track for 2019 ahead of power and gas spinoff

German industrial conglomerate Siemens said Wednesday it was sticking to its targets for 2018-19 after a…

Jerusalem’s dilemma over hordes of stray cats

A dozen cats wake up in cages stacked on top of one another, a pungent odour…