Scientists Made Working Fibre Optic Cables Out of Wood
When disposed of, these cables will biodegrade all on their own.
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When disposed of, these cables will biodegrade all on their own.
The discovery of these hot spots represents an uncomfortable truth for the Japanese government.
It's early days, but is still a promising development.
Governments need to enact legislation to limit the use of products that contribute to microplastic pollution, but there are things you can do as well.
Greenland’s melting ice sheet is the world’s single biggest contributor to sea level rise.
Often, these injuries could have contributed to or been caused by their homelessness.
Had the volcano been closer to the shoreline, this disaster would have been even worse.
Engineer and app developer Shanmuga Subramanian found the lander's debris field from a NASA photograph taken a few days after the crash.
Being able to harness this existing undersea infrastructure for earthquake detection is an exciting proposition.
Sadly, it’s not completely shocking that something like this is possible.
This collaboration between China and the Netherlands could provide new insights into the conditions of the early universe.
97 per cent of doctors in the UK have prescribed active placebos at least once in their careers.
The European Space Agency has approved the budget of Hera, the European component of a mission to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid.
2009 was one of the most consequential years when it came to climate change, and not in a good way.
This prehistoric rodent-like creature managed to evolve a hearing apparatus not seen in any other mammal, past or present.
At its AWS re:Invent 2019 conference, Amazon announced the launch of a quantum cloud computing platform.
