Study finds people who feed birds impact conservation
People in many parts of the world feed birds in their backyards, often due to a desire to help wildlife or to connect with...
Study suggests trees are crucial to the future of our cities
The shade of a single tree can provide welcome relief from the hot summer sun. But when that single tree is part of a...
Big U-turn: Key melting Greenland glacier is growing again
A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a new NASA study...
Matter waves and quantum splinters
Physicists in the United States, Austria and Brazil have shown that shaking ultracold Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) can cause them to either divide into uniform...
Experts reveal that clouds have moderated warming triggered by climate change
A new study has revealed how clouds are modifying the warming created by human-caused climate change in some parts of the world.
Led by Swansea...
Extremely accurate measurements of atom states for quantum computing
A new method allows the quantum state of atomic "qubits"—the basic unit of information in quantum computers—to be measured with twenty times less error...
New CRISPR-powered device detects genetic mutations in minutes
A team of engineers at the University of California, Berkeley and the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) of The Claremont Colleges combined CRISPR with electronic...
Evidence for a Human Geomagnetic Sense
Scientists develop a robust experiment that shows human brain waves respond to changes in Earth-strength magnetic fields.
Many humans are able to unconsciously detect changes...
Dynamic hydrogel used to make ‘soft robot’ components and LEGO-like building blocks
Using a new type of dual polymer material capable of responding dynamically to its environment, Brown University researchers have developed a set of modular...
What ionized the universe?
The sparsely distributed hot gas that exists in the space between galaxies, the intergalactic medium, is ionized. The question is, how? Astronomers know that...
Hubble captures birth of giant storm on Neptune
Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope document the formation of a Great Dark Spot on Neptune for the first time, report researchers in...
