Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP), working together with the Federal University of Alfenas (UNIFAL), have found significant amounts of hazardous chemicals in plastic toys sold throughout Brazil. The team examined 70 products,…

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP), working together with the Federal University of Alfenas (UNIFAL), have found significant amounts of hazardous chemicals in plastic toys sold throughout Brazil. The team examined 70 products,…

My fencing coach Derek Evered, who has died aged 100, began his working life as a lab assistant at 14 and rose to become reader in biochemistry, and deputy to the professor, at Chelsea College of Science and Technology, now part of King’s…

A Martian mystery that sparked years of debate — an alleged lake buried beneath miles of ice — now looks far less watery than scientists hoped.
A new radar study from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) revisits the strange signal…


Chemical engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo have joined forces to take on a pressing environmental problem by using synthetic biology to turn plastic waste into valuable resources.
The multidisciplinary group is…

When Empa researchers wheeled the EURECA satellite into their high-energy X-ray facility in Dübendorf, they faced an opportunity that comes along perhaps once in a generation. Very few satellites survive a mission and make it home intact….

The Mars Quantum Gravity Mission for Interior…

A NASA rover has recorded evidence of lightning on Mars for the first time, its microphone picking up the sounds of tiny “zaps” whipped up by the dust storms constantly sweeping across the planet.
The Barron’s news department was not involved in…