Chemicals in sewage-based fertilizer may persist in farmland soil for years

UNSW engineers have identified a number of chemicals that may merit closer scrutiny to ensure water utility companies and ...

Astronomers deliver the sharpest and deepest view yet of the low-frequency radio sky

Using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), an international team led by Leiden University has produced the sharpest and most ...

Children may be missing out on free school meals as families favor private education, study finds

Children in some of India's poorest families may be missing out on free school meals because the scheme does not match ...

Twisted atomic layers slide spontaneously at room temperature in simulations

Researchers revealed an ultralow-barrier collective sliding mechanism mediated by domain walls, as well as defect-induced ...

Climate shapes microbial nitrogen pump in forests, not in farmlands

Microbes build a long-lived nitrogen reservoir in soil from the remains of dead bacteria and fungi, which cling to minerals ...