After false starts and a muted launch, can beverage container return scheme improve recycling in S’pore?
SINGAPORE – The blue machines were there, ready for action, but there were hardly any cans for recycling…
Swedish Space Agency Signs Agreement with FAA on Launch Licensing
Credit: SSC Space The Swedish National Space Agency has signed an agreement with the US Federal Aviation Administration…
Are Neutrinos Their Own Evil Twins? Part 4: Majorana’s Mystery
(This is Part 4 of a series on neutrinos, Majorana fermions, and one of the strangest open questions…
Solar wind travels up to 4 times faster than expected, eclipse spacecraft reveals
Solar wind in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, flows up to four times faster than scientists had thought,…
How to Make Drilling for Oil Woke Again
It feels like an eternity, but it was only a decade ago when the political center-left was still…
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Graphene just defied a fundamental law of physics
For decades, physicists have been trying to answer a fundamental question: can electrons move like a perfectly smooth,…
Huge ancient sandstorm on Mars revealed in rippled sediments
View larger. | Here are some of the bedrock blocks in the Martian Jawbone Canyon region with the…
‘We took clothes, a blanket and a dog’: the people displaced by a dam 50 years ago, but still fighting for justice | Brazil
When the Indigenous leader Teodoro Alves was a young child in his community of Ocoy-Jacutinga, on the border…
See Comet PanSTARRS glow above a false dawn in stunning new photo
Comet PanSTARRS glows above Somerset in the UK. (Image credit: Josh Dury.) Astrophotographer Josh Dury captured a magnificent…
Scientists Are Using Lightning in a Bottle to Turn Methane Into Methanol
The right chemical formula can give mundane materials the most unlikely of makeovers. If you have any doubts,…
1 cup a day: Korea launches nationwide push to cut plastic waste
Disposable plastic cups and straws drift in the ocean / Korea Times file Korea is spearheading a sweeping…