Global food trade is essential for food security, but its ecological consequences often remain unseen. A new data paper ...

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, will require faster and ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...

Iron is an essential trace element in biological cells. The concentration of the element and its so-called redox state—it can ...

A new study of climate extremes since 1988 finds that many regions have seen increases in deaths due to floods, storms and ...

The tragic events in the Bay of Plenty this week are a stark reminder that landslides remain the deadliest of the many natural hazards New Zealand faces. A large landslide swept through the Mount ...

Deep-ultraviolet (DUV, λ < 200 nm) all-solid-state lasers, essential to modern scientific research and industrial ...

In recent years, revelations of unethical horse handling at elite levels of horsesport have drawn attention to an ...

Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

Soybean farmers around the world face a persistent and costly enemy hidden beneath the soil: soybean cyst nematode (SCN), a ...

Over Christmas, vegetables, bananas and insulation foam washed up on beaches along England's southeast coast. They were from ...

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According ...