Species have intrinsic value, but also provide ecosystem services of major economic value, for example, bees that pollinate our crops. However, as such values are hard to translate into figures,… Read More »Scientists conceptualize a species ‘stock market’ to put a price tag on actions posing risks to biodiversity
A team of researchers at University College London has developed a way to keep objects levitated by sound waves airborne when other objects interfere with the levitation path. In their… Read More »Keeping objects levitated by sound airborne despite interference
Martians! If you’re out there — duck and cover! On May 4, a monster Marsquake shook the Red Planet. And it was a doozy. The roughly magnitude 5 quake rocked… Read More »The InSight lander has caught a large ‘earthquake’ on Mars
Fault (noun, “FAWLT”) A fault is a crack in Earth’s crust where rocks slide past each other. Such fractures in Earth’s surface can span centimeters (inches) or can be hundreds… Read More »Scientists Say: Fault
Imagine a road with two lanes in each direction. One lane is for slow cars, and the other is for fast ones. For electrons moving along a quantum wire, researchers… Read More »Electrons take the fast and slow lanes at the same time