Researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT), working with international collaborators, have shown that people in ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more ...

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...

Researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, have developed a pine-bark–based water-treatment medium that efficiently ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by ...

A new CIIMAR study demonstrates that natural peptides produced by cyanobacteria are capable of replacing toxic biocides that ...

Snow is a defining feature of mountain ranges, and of winter itself for much of the world. But beyond its scenic value, snow ...

Carbon dioxide removal technologies are becoming increasingly important for climate action, but their differing storage times ...

Imagine computer hardware that is blazing fast and stores more data in less space. That's the promise of antiferromagnets, ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

The world is now using so much fresh water amid the consequences of climate change that it has entered an era of water ...