SAN FRANCISCO – The way parents use and manage screens at home may influence how teenagers play video games over time, according to a new study published in the World Journal of Pediatrics. Researchers from…
Sicilian snow
[caption id="attachment_11559" align="alignnone" width="700"] Sicilian snow[/caption] Part of the Italian island of Sicily is pictured in this false-colour image from the Sentinel-2A satellite. This image was captured on 8 January during a period of unusual…
CryoSat reveals lake outbursts beneath Antarctic ice
A novel way of using ESA’s CryoSat mission has revealed how lakes beneath Thwaites Glacier drained into the Amundsen Sea – potentially the largest such outflow ever reported in this region of West Antarctica. This…
Beyond eating: Indirectly, deer change the landscape
[caption id="attachment_11545" align="alignnone" width="775"] Forest understory differences inside and outside of a fence designed to exclude deer at UW–Madison’s Kemp Research Station in Vilas County. The forest on the left is outside the exclosure and…
Record-Breaking Material that Contracts When Heated
Researchers based at Nagoya University discover ceramic material that contracts on heating by more than twice the previous record-holding material. [caption id="attachment_11542" align="alignnone" width="960"] A layered ruthenate Ca2RuO4-y ceramic body contracts on heating, or exhibits…