Category Science & Discovery

Schematic Illustration of Active Material Crack Restoration via Elastic Nano Spring. Credit: POSTECH A research team has developed technology that could dramatically increase the lifespan and energy density of electric vehicle (EV) batteries. An EV battery must maintain its performance…

Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering leaving the country in the wake of widespread disruption to research brought in by the administration of US President Donald Trump. The researchers say they are looking…

You buy a laptop. You buy software. But for some reason, Microsoft thinks you should keep paying for Office apps forever. If you’re sick of being locked into a subscription just to use Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, why not grab…

(A) shows three large burrows with an infill feature, (B) shows a smaller tunnel connecting a cavity to the surface, (C) shows an infill feature shown by black arrow in A , and (D) shows an 18 cm infilled burrow…

IPCC Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis (eds Masson-Delmotte, V. et al.) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023). Fowler, H. J. et al. Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 2, 107–122 (2021). Article  ADS  MATH  Google Scholar …

Poor sleep can make you susceptible to a wide range of physical and mental health issues, including heart disease, high blood pressure, and anxiety. But new research indicates it may also increase the chances of yet another unwanted outcome: embracing…

Understanding the seabed is crucial for laying undersea cables, calculating tsunami paths and projecting sea level rises. It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the moon, an astonishing fact driving a global…

A ‘quantum processor’ has solved a physics problem on the behaviour of magnetism in certain solids that would take hundreds of thousands of years to calculate on the largest conventional supercomputers. The result is the latest claim of machine showing…

During a cataclysmic mass extinction event, there are typically not many places to hide. However, a region of the mountainous Turpan-Hami Basin in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Western China may have been an oasis for some living organisms during…

Recently restored grasslands (top row) are visited mostly by flies and hoverflies that are generalists and thus often carry pollen from one plant to flowers of a different species (from left to right: Syrphus torvus on Galium verum, Eristalis tenax…