Pesky pests can wreak havoc on plants by chewing leaves, boring into stems, and sucking sap from trees. Beyond the direct damage, they also spread harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi that can infect ...

Researchers have developed, for the first time in the world, incoherent dielectric tensor tomography (iDTT), a technology ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its DNA with extraordinary precision. But this process is constantly challenged by ...

A new study warns that climate change is creating serious and growing risks for millions of pilgrims performing Hajj, with ...

The myriapoda group of arthropods includes the many-legged centipedes and millipedes that most people are familiar with.

Lidar systems use pulses of infrared light to measure distance and map a 3D scene with high resolution, allowing autonomous vehicles to rapidly react to obstacles that appear in their path. But ...

For years, quantum computers have lived under a huge bubble of hype, promising to revolutionize numerous fields, from medicine and battery design to materials science and cybersecurity. But realizing ...

A team of researchers from the Universities of Tübingen, Bayreuth, and Kassel, and the Polish Academy of Sciences has developed a method for precisely controlling the movement of magnetic ...

Shapes of beaks and snouts come in an extraordinary range of forms, reflecting adaptations to different lifestyles and ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute have shown that electrons in ultra-clean graphene can be steered with high precision while keeping their spin information ...

Earlier this year I gave a talk about my research at Oxford's All Souls College, and worked with a chef to design an ...

Climate change makes the southern Amazon's rain increasingly sensitive to deforestation, a new study finds. Clearing large areas of forest can trigger severe and lasting reductions in rainfall ...