The business of biodiversity: can we put a value on nature?

Nature provides people with everything from food and water to timber, textiles, medicinal resources and pollination…

One transistor for all purposes

In mobiles, fridges, planes – transistors are everywhere. But they often operate only within a restricted…

Researchers find Americans set their thermostat to match African environmental temperatures

A team of researchers at North Carolina State University has found that people living in the…

Electric vehicles as an example of a market failure

Electric vehicle revolution is well under way. Norway ambitiously heads toward having all new cars sold…

New Cretaceous fossil sheds light on avian reproduction

A team of scientists led by Alida Bailleul and Jingmai O'Connor from the Institute of Vertebrate…

Autonomous transport will shape the future of cities – best get on the right path early

A unique opportunity exists for infrastructure investment in Australia as transport as we know it faces…

Juice’s magnetometer boom

A test version of the 10.5-m long magnetometer boom built for ESA’s mission to Jupiter, developed…

Juice’s magnetometer boom

A test version of the 10.5-m long magnetometer boom built for ESA’s mission to Jupiter, developed…

When development and conservation clash in the Serengeti

A proposed Northern Serengeti all-weather tarmac road that will bisect Serengeti National Park, a World Heritage…

Spot failed Soviet Venus probe Kosmos 482 in Earth orbit

A ghost from the old Soviet space program may return to Earth in the coming years.…