Healthy, happy and tropical – world’s fastest-growing cities demand our attention

What does it take to be a happy and healthy city? In any city, myriad factors…

Optical Budgeting for LUVOIR

Abstract: Future large astronomical telescopes in space will have architectures that will have complex and demanding…

Helping teachers ‘practise what they teach’ could help them stay teaching for longer

Early career teachers are more likely to stay on if they practise what they teach in…

Stop outsourcing the regulation of hate speech to social media

When it comes to dealing with online hate speech, we've ended up in the worst of…

In ancient oceans that resembled our own, oxygen loss triggered mass extinction

Roughly 430 million years ago, during the Earth's Silurian Period, global oceans were experiencing changes that…

Physicists obtain data on particle self-organization in ultracold dusty plasma

Physicists recently investigated the behavior of particles in a dusty plasma at a temperature below 2…

Tumor-promoting enzymes USP25 and USP28: Substantial differences identified

Researchers from the Rudolf Virchow Center of the University of Würzburg (JMU) have solved the structures…

Mission Design for the Lunar Pallet Lander

Abstract: Due to lighting conditions, the program decided to only fly to the north pole in…

An Exploratory Evaluation of UAS Detect and Avoid Operations in the Terminal Environment

Abstract: New technical standards for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) detect and avoid (DAA) systems mark recent…

Mirrors control chemical selectivity

A chemical reaction transforms the molecules that make up matter. To influence chemical reactions, chemists typically…