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Major study shows the need to improve how scientists approach early-stage cancer research
Preclinical research — the kind that takes place before testing on humans — often guides decisions about which…
Discovering the forest wonders of Africa – and the threats they face
Shutterstock Robert Nasi, Centre for International Forestry Research Africa’s forests are some of the natural wonders of the…
Astronomy’s 10-year wish list: Big money, bigger telescopes and the biggest questions in science
The Hubble Space Telescope was born from a previous decadal survey. What leaps forward will come from this…
How we discovered that sea turtles in Seychelles have recovered from the brink
Rich Baxter, Author provided April Burt, University of Oxford; Adam Pritchard, University of Exeter, and Cheryl Sanchez, University…
Record-smashing heatwaves are hitting Antarctica and the Arctic simultaneously. Here’s what’s driving them, and how they’ll impact wildlife
Windmill Islands, near Casey Research Station, Antarctica Dana M Bergstrom, Author provided Dana M Bergstrom, University of Wollongong;…
How a deluge of lockdown volunteers rescued UK’s hidden weather history
Julia Sudnitskaya/Shutterstock Ed Hawkins, University of Reading When it rains, it pours. Make hay while the sun shines.…
A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and the internet – an electrical engineer explains how
Typical amounts of solar particles hitting the earth’s magnetosphere can be beautiful, but too much could be catastrophic.…
Cloud seeding might not be as promising as drought-troubled states hop
Cloud seeding equipment near Winter Park in Colorado. Denver Water William R. Cotton, Colorado State University Forecasters at…
Using artificial intelligence in health sciences education requires interdisciplinary collaboration and risk assessment
Health sciences education needs to be updated to include training in technology. (Shutterstock) Elif Bilgic, McMaster University and…
How we communicate, what we value – even who we are: 8 surprising things data science has revealed about us over the past decade
Shutterstock Paul X. McCarthy, UNSW Sydney and Colin Griffith, CSIRO Big data analysis has long supported major feats…