City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) researchers have uncovered a unique mechanism for producing the brilliant blue skin of ribbontail stingrays. This discovery sheds light on how nature can create vibrant colors through the particular arrangements of nanostructures, a process known as structural coloration. This research delves into the fa...

 Float gen is the first offshore wind turbine installed off the French coast! Objective: to demonstrate the technical feasibility and economic viability of floating offshore wind in deep waters.First offshore wind turbine in FranceToday, FLOATGEN is the first offshore wind turbine, fixed and floating combined, to have been installed in France ...

 An antenna on ExoMars' Trace Gas Orbiter has been given a new lease of life, helping researchers delve into the Martian atmosphere like never before.Using the repurposed equipment, a team including Imperial College London researchers have measured parts of the Martian atmosphere that were previously impossible to probe. This includes areas th...

 Scientists have discovered a vast black hole more than 8,200 times the mass of our sun in a nearby star cluster which could unravel cosmic secrets.Located at the heart of the Omega Centauri cluster 18,000 light years away, the super-dense object is the closest example of a massive black hole ever discovered, and the first confirmed 'intermedi...

 There's a hidden threat looming among subtropical seagrass meadows — turtles in search of milder temperatures.It's not just turtles, though. Manatees and a host of other herbivores that feed on a steady diet of seagrass need lots of it to survive. In addition to a steady supply of food, these herbivores also generally like to reside in warm c...

 Imperial physicists are leading a new experiment that could discover particles never seen before.The project could help answer many prevailing mysteries in modern physics and expand humanity's understanding of fundamental science beyond our current guiding theory of particle physics – the Standard Model.To do this, CERN, the European Organisa...

 People are being encouraged to eat more wild fish, such as mackerel, anchovies and herring, which are often used within farmed salmon feeds.These oily fish contain essential nutrients including calcium, B12 and omega-3 but some are lost from our diets when we just eat the salmon fillet.Scientists found that farmed salmon production leads to a...

 We know that microplastics can affect organisms in the oceans, for example various forms of plankton-eating animals. But the small waste particles also become overgrown by microorganisms in the freshwater environment before they reach the marine environment. Many freshwater species will thereby mix with the species of microorganisms in the ma...

Various cities are fortifying the resilience of their urban infrastructure networks to tackle potential unforeseen disruptions, particularly due to extreme weather resulting from climate change. Recently, researchers from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) used the Hong Kong public transport system as a case study to reveal the crucial role of in...

 Traditionally, battery-electric flying was not considered a mainstream aviation solution given assumed limitations in aircraft capacity and range. However, this perception is being challenged by two scientific papers, 'A new perspective on battery-electric aviation, part I and II' authored by Rob Wolleswinkel, Reynard de Vries, Maurice Hoogre...

As reported in The Conversation and co-written by Jessie MacInnis, PhD Candidate, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources and the Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba:Problems in Canada's food system are being felt from field to fork — and they are increasingly hard to swallow.After a year of skyro...

 Food innovations instigate progress, from farming to product packagingIt's difficult to picture what grocery stores, restaurant menus and dinner plates would look like without innovations from Boilermakers. Industries have stemmed from the inventions and improvements established by these leaders taking giant leaps in food science."It's chemis...

Have you ever wondered if there are more insects out at night than during the day?We set out to answer this question by combing through the scientific literature. We searched for meaningful comparisons of insect activity by day and by night. It turns out only about 100 studies have ever attempted the daunting and rigorous fieldwork required – so we...

 An international team of researchers has found that Africa's birds of prey are facing an extinction crisis.The report, co-led by researchers from the School of Biology at the University of St Andrews and The Peregrine Fund and published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution (Wednesday 4 January 2024), warns of declines among nearly 90...

 Key points:Deakin Criminology experts have examined the inner workings within and between rival outlaw motorcycle gang (OMCG) clubs.The analysis reveals how senior members use lower ranked members to commit crimes, and how OMCG clubs work with rival clubs to carry out offences.The research can provide a blueprint for law enforcement to target...

 More reliable and efficient systems will spot unfolding threatsA new early-warning system using drones and artificial intelligence will be developed to detect a selection of natural disasters in a project led by Manchester Metropolitan University.Natural disasters – including earthquakes, floods and fires – not only pose a threat to human lif...

 Angela Wilkins, until recently the executive director of Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute, is definitely pro-artificial intelligence. Even over our Zoom call, her enthusiasm about it is uplifting, and it's entirely with that kind of positive energy — not distrust or anxiety — that she says AI has "seeped into everything.""It's in every field now....

 Digitality and new technologies and materials change our world every day and challenge the way we think and act. The scale extends from the small structural parts of matter all the way to the phenomena of space. Artificial intelligence makes it possible to use different amounts of data more widely and more efficiently. Digitality opens up new...

 With recent studies having established the presence of nano and microplastic particles in the respiratory systems of both human and bird populations, a new University of Technology Sydney (UTS) study has modelled what happens when people breathe in different kinds of plastic particles and where they end up.Led by Senior Lecturer of Mechanical...

 Scientists from the Department of Biological Science at Florida State University have described and named a new species of coral in the waters of French Polynesia.Postdoctoral researcher Erika Johnston and Scott Burgess, associate professor of Biological Science, described Pocillopora tuahiniensis by studying the coral's genome and examining ...