Science
Scientific discoveries and research
Keeping roads and train lines open during India's monsoon floods
Seasonal monsoon rains in India turn crops lush and fill essential water reservoirs. They can also cause roads to flood and bring train travel to a standstill,...
Rock bonding changes understanding of earthquake mechanics
When tectonic plates move, they rarely do so smoothly. Sometimes they slide almost imperceptibly; at other times, stress is suddenly released—resulting in an ea...
Researchers develop AI-driven air quality monitoring system
Johannesburg's air quality has never really been measured systematically. Like many other cities across the globe, scientists have battled to develop cost-effec...
Tiny plankton have big impact on harmful algal bloom predictions, data reveal
As climate change intensifies harmful algal blooms worldwide, an international team led by Hiroshima University has developed a hybrid modeling approach that co...
Taming skyrmions: Atom-thin magnets point to ultra-dense, low-power memory
Data is growing at a staggering pace, pushing charge-based microelectronics, such as smartphones and laptops, to their physical limits. Spintronics—technology t...
From Asgard to Earth: Tiny tubes may reveal the moment complex life began
Stromatolites—and their close relatives, microbial mats—could be mistaken for what seems like a bunch of old dark rocks. But instead, they are dense, layered co...
Emperor penguins listed as endangered species: IUCN
The emperor penguin has been declared an endangered species as climate change pushes the icon of Antarctica a step closer to extinction, the global authority on...
New study reveals the depth of children's nuclear anxiety
As geopolitical tensions rise globally, a new study published in Critical Studies on Security warns that the shadow of the "mushroom cloud" is weighing heavily...
Ancient Māori remains point to largely plant-based diets before colonization
New research led by the University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, in close partnership with mana whenua, is shedding new light on Māori diet and burial practice...
Dragonflies share humans' red-light sensing trick, detecting wavelengths near 720 nm
Sometimes, different organisms can evolve the same ability independently, a process called parallel evolution. A new study from Osaka Metropolitan University (O...
Traveling tropical disturbance increases rainfall across the Hawaiian Islands
A new study by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa revealed that the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO), a large-scale tropical disturbance that trav...
Single-shot imaging captures more information about ultrafast microscopic processes than previously possible
Researchers have developed a new imaging technique that captures more information about ultrafast processes in the microscopic world than was previously possibl...