Citizen scientists observing marine species during BioMARatona 2025 LISBON— Biodiversity loss in Europe is accelerating due to human activities such as climate change, pollution and overexploitation, scientists warn. To counter this, the EU-funded ANERIS project…
ESA and NASA to investigate bringing martian soil…
[caption id="attachment_15096" align="alignnone" width="700"] Mars[/caption] ESA and NASA signed a statement of intent today to explore concepts for missions to bring samples of martian soil to Earth. Spacecraft in orbit and on Mars’s surface have…
TU Delft E|A|S (Evolving Asteroid Starships) project
[caption id="attachment_15093" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: Design by Nils Faber & Angelo Vermeulen[/caption] A group of students and researchers at Delft University of Technology are designing a starship capable of keeping generations of crew alive as…
Surface engineering gets the red light
Perovskite particles could improve the performance of solar cells and light-emitting diodes via a simple process to stabilize the nanocrystal surface. [caption id="attachment_15090" align="alignnone" width="722"] Stabilizing optical nanocrystals without degrading their electrical properties could underpin…
Human impact on sea urchin abundance
In the longest running study of its kind, researchers found sea urchin populations were strongly affected by human-driven environmental changes. [caption id="attachment_15086" align="alignnone" width="648"] Arial view of Hatakejima Island, Wakayama where the study took place…






