Researchers have developed a highly sensitive method for detecting environmental hotspots, such as bushfires or military threats, by harnessing the focusing power of meta-optical systems.
A team of international scientists has quantified the threat that climate change poses to nine staple food crops in sub-Saharan Africa and outlined actions and timelines needed to adapt to head off the risk of crop and food shortages.
Scientists developing fusion energy experiments have solved a puzzle of why their million-degree heating beams sometimes fail, and instead destabilise the fusion experiments before energy is generated.
“For my research project, I’m part of a team looking at climate change that took place 40 to 50 million years ago, when the Earth transitioned from ‘greenhouse’ to ‘icehouse’.
A culture that is overtly anti-sexist can still implicitly associate science with masculinism, according to CPAS academic Lindy Orthia and anthropologist Rachel Morgain.
Scientists have harnessed static electricity to control chemical reactions for the first time, in a breakthrough that could bring cleaner industry and cheaper nanotechnology.