Portable air cleaners aimed at curbing indoor spread of infections are rarely tested for how well they protect people –...
Chaos gardening – wild beauty, or just a mess? A sustainable landscape specialist explains the trend
If you’ve spent any time in the gardening corners of social media lately, you’ve likely come across a trend called...
Innovative adhesive film harvests electricity from peeling, enabling battery-free sensing and safety
A new ultra-thin, transparent film, developed by researchers at UNIST can generate electrical signals solely through mechanical peeling or pressing...
In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as the...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Supernovae appear to our eyes—and to astronomical instruments—as brilliant flashes that flare up in the sky without warning, in places...
Every party needs balloons. These just happen to be filled with laughing gas. “We don’t do it that often. It’s...
University of Wisconsin–Madison mechanical engineers have developed a comprehensive framework that accelerates improvements to shock-absorbing foam materials. The materials have...
A new study highlights how disruptions in classifieds impacted political coverage, creating opportunities for more extreme candidates. In the olden...
There are high hopes for quantum computers: they are supposed to perform specific calculations much faster than current supercomputers and,...
Two different studies published in GigaScience present the near-complete reference genomes of the central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps), a widely...
Human activities, such as deforestation and the expansion of agricultural areas, have a massive impact on the natural state of...
