A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology has taken a hard look at the challenges facing efforts to carry out the Breakthrough Starshot project. In their Perspective piece published in the journal Nature ...
This week marks the 26th anniversary of the explosion at the Westray mine in the Nova Scotia community of Plymouth. Sparks in the mine combined with methane gas to cause an explosion that killed 26 men on May 9, 1992.
Social Sciences
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Australia's recycling industry is in crisis, with China having effectively closed its borders to foreign recycling. Emergency measures have included stockpiling, landfilling, and trying to find other international destinations ...
Environment
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Cereal farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing heavy losses due to the devastation by an invasive pest: the Fall army worm - Spodoptera frugiperda. In Africa it has caused huge losses to staple cereals, especially ...
Ecology
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Sometimes it feels like much of the world is anti-science. GMO-free labels clutter our grocery stores, sea level rise threatens our coastlines, and some communities choose not to vaccinate their children—to name just a ...
Social Sciences
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Now is a great time to see Jupiter in the night sky, as the planet reaches opposition on Wednesday, May 9.
Space Exploration
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Experiments with ultra-cold atoms at the TU Wien have shown surprising results: coupled atom clouds synchronize within milliseconds. This effect cannot be explained by standard theories.
Quantum Physics
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University of Virginia terrestrial ecologist Howie Epstein has won a $607,000 NASA grant to use Earth-observing satellite data to assess how vegetation diversity is changing in the Arctic tundra.
Earth Sciences
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Promiscuity is a bad idea for female stick insects, in fact their smartest option is to have no sex at all.
Plants & Animals
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New research has revealed how an endangered turtle capable of traversing big distances to find a mate may not do so due to seasonal ocean currents.
Ecology
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