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Triple-Bonded Boron Opens New Chemical World
In a vacuum-sealed flask on a lab bench in Germany sits an emerald-green crystal that will cause some jaws...
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Ecodesign: The Bottom Line
If architecture is 'design for living', one of its greatest challenges is how to live with the masses of...
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Governments Make ‘Pitiful’ Progress on Oceans
Little has been done to protect marine life since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, conservation scientists conclude. On pledges...
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Analysis of Global Fire Risk Shows Big, Fast Changes Ahead
Climate change is widely expected to disrupt future fire patterns around the world, with some regions, such as the...
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NASA Launches Black Hole-Hunting Telescope
NASA’s hunting season has just begun, as the U.S. space agency launched its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft...
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Support. Collaborate. Retain: Strategies for Improving the STEM Teaching Crisis
Current efforts to improve STEM education are limited by schools’ ability to retain good teachers.
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Shark-Headed Human Ancestor Swam With Fishes
Peer far enough back in the human family lineage, and you’ll find a fishy ancestor that looked surprisingly like...
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Unraveling the Bonobo’s Genome, and its Secrets
Ulindi, a female bonobo at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany, has had her genome sequenced, researchers reported, making bonobos...
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Electrons Become Both Heavy and Speedy
A Princeton University-led team of scientists has shown how electrons moving in certain solids can behave as though they...
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Irrigation Expert Crosses Religious, Political Lines to Win Major Prize
Daniel Hillel developed a system called micro-irrigation, which has opened up dry regions to farming, revolutionizing agriculture worldwide. The...
