Improved radon gas mapping finds nearly 25% of Americans living in highest risk areas
Researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have assembled a national database with millions of multi-day ...
Newly fabricated crystals control interactions between high-frequency phonons and single quantum systems
Phonons, the quantum mechanical vibrations of atoms in solids, are often sources of noise in solid-state quantum systems, ...
After millennia as COâ‚‚ sink, more than one-third of Arctic-boreal region is now a source
After millennia as a carbon deep-freezer for the planet, regional hotspots and increasingly frequent wildfires in the ...
Dried plants 19th-century Australian colonial institution indicate secret, illicit snacking among residents
Analysis of dried plants from a colonial institution in 19th-century Australia reveals many foodstuffs that do not appear in ...
Annual carbon monoxide emissions measured from Europe's 21 largest steel plants
The Dutch TROPOMI space instrument creates daily global maps of carbon monoxide (CO) in the atmosphere. Researchers from SRON ...
Darwin and Bateman thought female animals weren't promiscuous—they were wrong
Darwin wasn't the only scientist who thought females couldn't be promiscuous. Angus John Bateman had very similar ideas.
1080 baits are used to kill foxes, cats and dingoes—but other animals can be more likely to eat them
Around the world, humans routinely kill carnivores to protect livestock and game, increase human safety and conserve native ...
Astronauts on NASA's Artemis mission to the moon will need better boots. Here's why
The U.S.'s return to the moon with NASA's Artemis program will not be a mere stroll in the park. Instead it will be a ...
Controlling plasma heat in a fusion energy power plant: 'Louvers' on fusion device should exhaust gases as hot as a star
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is developing a tokamak device called SPARC. The company aims to demonstrate the critical ...
Q&A: Causes, spread and solutions for California's wildfire crisis
As wildfires relentlessly sweep across Southern California and other parts of the world, Manzhu Yu, an assistant professor of ...
Book explores the ecology and management of invasive Prosopis trees in Eastern Africa
CABI has published a new book which explores the ecology and management of invasive Prosopis juliflora trees which have ...