Latest Science News

3 hours ago
Earth Sciences
9

Reducing floodplain development doesn't need to be complex, say researchers

Social Sciences
1

How your Zoom background could influence how tired you feel after a video call

6 hours ago
Earth Sciences
16

Rugged Falklands landscape was once a lush rainforest, researchers say

Analytical Chemistry
1

Harnessing nature's rhythm: Piezocatalysis for organic pollutant degradation

9 hours ago
Education
1

Pupils with special educational needs and disabilities continue to fall behind their peers, study finds

Environment
16

Poor indoor air quality isn't just making us sick. It's also polluting our cities

Economics & Business
21

Eviction filings can destabilize tenants' lives, even when they win their case

Biochemistry
1

Bioengineers create new substrate to study wood-decomposing enzyme

Bio & Medicine
24

Antioxidant carbon dot nanozymes alleviate depression in rats by restoring the gut microbiome

Social Sciences
47

Can toddlers help explain the origins of our bias for wealth?

Social Sciences
1

New research reveals how 'home' affects psychological well-being in a mobile world

Astronomy
113

New cosmic distance catalog could unlock the mysteries of universe formation

General Physics
2

Neutron scientists wake a sleeping giant after nine-month nap and makeover

Astronomy
1

Webb Telescope provides another look into galactic collisions

Bio & Medicine
4

Nanoparticle technology shows promise for targeted diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis

Plants & Animals
8

Study identifies possible novel species in fish genus endemic to Neotropics

12 hours ago
Nanophysics
1

Enhanced ion diffusion kinetics achieved through interpenetrated structures in electrochemical energy storage devices

Plants & Animals
1

Glue in the face: How frogs' sticky secretions defend them from attack

Planetary Sciences
50

Could you find what a lunar crater is made of by shooting it?

Space Exploration
18

There are plenty of uses for powerful lasers in space. But where should we put them?

Earth Sciences
15

What the jet stream and climate change had to do with the hottest summer on record

Biotechnology
8

Ethanol: A viable alternative to sugar-based carbon sources for biomanufacturing

Environment
1

Flushing rubbish down the toilet has impacts on nature

Earth Sciences
116

Geoscientists confirm 'dripping' of Earth's crust beneath Türkiye's Central Anatolian Plateau

Economics & Business
1

Young professionals are struggling to socially adapt in the workplace; how educators can help

Ecology
1

New analysis indicates UK hunting trophies law would cause more harm than good

Plants & Animals
1

Unraveling the conservation conundrum of China's native Jacktree

Biotechnology
1

Greenhouse gains: Cucumbers get a genetic upgrade through innovative pollen tech

Plants & Animals
15

Study explores metabolic disruptions in Artemisia annua mutant strain

Environment
7

South Africa's Gauteng province launches water data hub, so residents can now keep track of shortages and repair issues

Environment
1

Groundwater cleanup boost: Tailoring 3D media for DNAPL contaminant removal

Plasma Physics
84

Tracking plasma progression in a picosecond: Physicists develop ultra-fast laser method to study high-density plasmas

Environment
2

Side effects of wide-scale forestation could reduce water availability by 15% in vulnerable regions

Education
17

Is AI exacerbating disparities in education?

Ecology
1

If you build it, will they come? Wildlife corridors need smarter design

Earth Sciences
6

An innovative system for seeing into the bowels of a volcano

Materials Science
23

Materials scientist describes new world order for glasses, liquids

Nanophysics
41

Why petting your cat leads to static electricity

Social Sciences
55

Moving as one: Discovering how synchronous movements strengthen social bonds

Plants & Animals
18

Another new wasp species discovered by researchers

Environment
7

India coal expansion risks massive methane growth: Report

General Physics
127

LHC experiments observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet

Social Sciences
16

The harder I work, the luckier I get? What coaches, athletes and fans need to understand about luck in sport

Bio & Medicine
2

Upcycling e-waste into heterogeneous CuₓO nano skeletons for high-performance glucose sensing

Nanomaterials
68

2D silk protein layers on graphene pave the way for advanced microelectronics and computing

Economics & Business
12

Opinion: 'Right to disconnect' laws are a step toward healthier, more productive and more inclusive workplaces

Polymers
22

Nature-inspired patterns boost polymer toughness

Quantum Physics
61

Researchers simplify design of optical atomic clocks without compromising performance

Ecology
40

Propagated corals reveal increased resistance to bleaching across the Caribbean during the fatal heat wave of 2023

Archaeology
52

South African rock art possibly inspired by long-extinct species, suggests research

Plants & Animals
22

Study finds marine animals in untouched habitats are at greater risk from human impacts than previously thought

Social Sciences
1

Champions League 2024: Data suggests the new format could end up being fairer and more competitive

Ecology
3

Small populations of Stone Age people drove dwarf hippos and elephants to extinction on Cyprus

Planetary Sciences
88

Scientists have found evidence of past extreme solar storms—they could be disastrous for technology-based society

Environment
1

How to prepare for a stormy 'supercharged' September

Ecology
1

Walking the trees: Researchers trace how First Nations groups moved bunya pine and black bean trees

Economics & Business
0

How job-hopping managers undermine corporate culture

Earth Sciences
6

Projections show future droughts could be longer than expected

Plants & Animals
17

Which plant species will survive the global change challenge?

Analytical Chemistry
48

First liquid-liquid extraction trial finds porous liquids can separate harmful or unwanted alcohols from mixtures

Agriculture
17

Farming soybeans after soybeans, a rarity in Iowa, gets a closer look

Ecology
1

Ocean sediment is a 'mudtropolis'—meet the carbon-cycling creatures thriving beneath the seabed

Astronomy
88

Magnifying deep space through the 'Carousel Lens'—rare alignment offers unique opportunity to study cosmology

Cell & Microbiology
17

Scientists identify 18 bacterial strains to treat antibiotic-resistant gut infections

Political science
8

Racial and gender bias in US crime victim compensation programs highlighted in report

Social Sciences
1

More governments are promising a 'right to disconnect'—but psychology affects how well we can unplug from work

Social Sciences
12

Will customers accept less meat in their cafeteria meals?

Ecology
1

Pathologists identify plague in blind Idaho deer

General Physics
62

Ocean waves grow way beyond known limits, new research finds

Astronomy
35

Work is underway on NASA's next-generation asteroid hunter

Cell & Microbiology
32

Science backs traditional knowledge of Kakadu plum health benefits

Space Exploration
1

Measuring moon dust to fight air pollution

Environment
30

So where does the oceans' plastic waste come from?

Analytical Chemistry
9

Researchers discover highest second-harmonic generation response in deep-ultraviolet phosphate

General Physics
7

Physicists reveal evolution of shell structure using machine learning

Cell & Microbiology
1

Harmless strain of E. coli bacteria may be able to prevent urinary tract infections

Molecular & Computational biology
7

Scientists find new epigenetic switch, revealing how genes are regulated in early development

Nanophysics
10

Single-step lifecycle monitoring made fast and easy with single-walled carbon nanotubes

Analytical Chemistry
1

Template synthesis creates multilayered perovskites with unique ferroelectric behavior

Ecology
26

'Emergency' declared over falling UK butterfly numbers

Space Exploration
2

Reinventing the clock: NASA's new tech for space timekeeping

Astronomy
33

Second-gen Starlink satellites leak 30 times more radio interference, threatening astronomical observations

Bio & Medicine
1

DNA origami and fluorescent probes can precisely release molecular cargo

Cell & Microbiology
28

Silencing in action: How cells 'repress' genomic remnants of ancient viruses

Earth Sciences
31

Scientists develop AI models able to predict future drought conditions with high accuracy

Quantum Physics
16

Different qubit architecture could enable easier manufacturing of quantum computer building blocks

Social Sciences
1

Australians confused about food date labels and storage advice, study finds

Biotechnology
11

Building better DNA editors: Retrons raise the bar for gene research

Ecology
1

Hemp shows high promise as potential natural insecticide

Other
28

As strong as a feather: New insights into optimal muscle design

Evolution
1

New study reveals evolution's role in ecosystem stability and tipping points

Condensed Matter
10

Antiferromagnetic spintronics advance opens door to next-gen electronics

Plants & Animals
85

Apes understand reasons behind each other's actions, research finds

Astronomy
28

From earthquakes to starquakes: Seismology research helps understand exoplanet migration

Plants & Animals
14

Polar bears found to have diverged from brown bears just 70,000 years ago

Environment
19

The 10 most common types of litter found on California's beaches

Astronomy
145

Astronomers discover biggest ever seen black hole jets, which blast hot plasma well beyond their own host galaxy

Biotechnology
117

New kit makes classroom CRISPR experiments affordable and accessible

Evolution
52

Early dingoes are related to dogs from New Guinea and East Asia, 3D fossil scanning study finds

Plants & Animals
54

Do cats know their own dimensions and use that knowledge to squeeze through tight openings?

Molecular & Computational biology
1

Research boosts understanding of sorghum's pest resistance

18 hours ago
Astronomy
16

Could we find primordial black holes in the solar system?

Space Exploration
8

There could be a way to fix spacecraft at L2, like Webb and Gaia

Education
5

Educators identify three strategies that best help struggling readers

Astronomy
34

Future gravitational wave observatories could see the earliest black hole mergers in the universe

Ecology
8

Scientists urge new conservation approach to save vulnerable species from climate change impacts

Environment
2

Researchers simulate how wildfires spread through communities

Social Sciences
0

Online tool aims to assess equity in scholarly communication models

Ecology
122

New evidence suggests allergies were partly to blame for demise of woolly mammoth

Education
2

Banning kids from social media in Australia? There's a better way

Environment
45

World off track on climate fight but AI could help: UN

Environment
14

Gen Z: Will they finally solve the plastic crisis?

Environment
0

Exploring climate change through mobile games

Social Sciences
1

Study finds political views, not race, shape reactions to mass shooting data

Space Exploration
9

FAA wants to fine SpaceX more than $600,000 for Space Coast launch site violations

Space Exploration
9

SpaceX pushes booster recovery limits with satellite launch

Astronomy
96

Astronomers detect hundreds of supernova remnants using novel method

Archaeology
236

New research reveals that America's oldest tombstone came from Belgium and belonged to an English knight

Environment
2

Deadly Portugal wildfires force new evacuations

Planetary Sciences
59

Hidden craters reveal Earth may once have had a ring—like Saturn

Plants & Animals
41

Scientists quantify energetic costs of the migratory lifestyle in a free flying songbird