Improving urban flood forecasting with real-time hazardous rainfall detection

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) announced that it will apply its early detection ...

Sea surface temperature biases shift the North Pacific jet stream southward, study finds

Climate models are numerical models used to project future climate change. They simulate the climate from the present into the future by calculating changes in the atmosphere, ocean and other ...

How rural policing gaps can make escaping domestic violence harder

Before murdering Molly Ticehurst in April 2024, court documents show Daniel Billings had threatened to exploit the limits of ...

Small gardens are a big barrier to supporting nature—but better planning could protect UK wildlife

A new study by Chester Zoo and Nottingham Trent University scientists revealed that just over a third (38%) of more than 230 ...

Tiny atomic tweak makes plastic-eating enzymes more powerful

A new approach that changes just one atom in plastic-degrading enzymes could help make them more efficient while maintaining ...

As AI reshapes jobs and workers change industries, employers need to be more flexible too

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the tasks people do at work and the skills they need. As work changes, being able to ...

Humans or AI? Who or what can scam you more effectively?

A text from your neighborhood gardening club friend Ben offering a deal on seeds might seem too specific to be a scam. But ...

North Korea's nuclear testing may have triggered hundreds of earthquakes over several years

Between 2006 and 2017, North Korea conducted six underground nuclear tests at its vast testing site at Mount Mantap in North Hamgyong province. Typically, underground explosions trigger an intense ...

Physicists extend the search for quantum black holes at the LHC

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Discovery of CRISPR's long lost ancestor may expand gene-editing toolkit

CRISPR may be a powerful technology for gene editing, but the system existed in bacteria long before scientists began using it. For billions of years, CRISPR has acted as a natural immune system in ...

Coffee on the nanoscale: Graphene oxide membrane removes half the caffeine while retaining key compounds

The humble coffee filter has the relatively simple job of letting the coffee through and leaving the grounds behind. But researchers from the ARC Center of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation ...

'Lost' medieval castle found hiding inside university building in Dublin

One of Dublin's "lost" medieval castles has been found hiding in plain sight inside University College Dublin's Roebuck Castle. New research reveals that substantial remains of the Norman castle of ...