The UK’s peatlands face an uncertain future amid the escalating impacts of climate change. Peatlands are critical ecosystems ...

New technology from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is helping the EU establish ...

Scientific Excellence working group have published an article in the journal Nature examining the criteria used to measure ...

Scientists from the Interface Science Department of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in collaboration with ...

The ultimate goal of the lightsail project is to drive a freely accelerating lightsail that is 10 square meters in area and 100 nm or less in thickness. In this first experimental step, the Caltech ...

The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and ...

A microscope image of the Caltech team's "miniature trampoline," a tiny lightsail tethered at the corners for direct radiation pressure measurement.

People who regularly floss their teeth (one or more times per week) may lower their risk of stroke caused by a blood clot traveling from the heart and a stroke associated with an irregular heartbeat ...

It has been unclear which soils are better candidates for being managed by prescribed burning in terms of allowing a high diversity of endangered plants or plant species in general. To settle this ...

The total productivity of plants at sequestering carbon varies based on the ecosystem it lives in. To identify different factors that influence photosynthesis and respiration in plants, a study of ...

Researcher Lindsay Waldrop with her dog. Findings challenge traditional assumptions of performance specialization resulting from selective breeding ...

Health sciences researcher Emre Umucu, Ph.D., associate professor and associate dean for research at The University of Texas at El Paso, has been awarded the Roger G. Barker Distinguished Research ...