Dating apps like Tinder affect relationships and the economics of desire

In recent years, it has become commonplace to see people selecting potential partners with the same gestures (and enthusiasm) ...

Q&A: What happens when producers are responsible for recycling their products and packaging?

Who should pay when a product becomes waste—the company that made it or the public? That question sits at the center of ...

New genetic approaches raise hopes for restoring the American chestnut to its former glory

The American chestnut tree was a dominant and iconic species in many Appalachian forests until it was devastated by an ...

Rescuing satellites is harder than it looks. A growing space junk problem will make doing so more important

A commercial robotic spacecraft called LINK launched on an emergency mission to save NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, ...

Carbon footprint of metal production could be more than 10 times higher than estimated

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that metal production carbon footprints could be more than 10 times ...

Spread of invasive malaria mosquito from Asia to Africa traced in new genomic study

A genomic surveillance study has shed new light on how an invasive urban malaria mosquito species spread from Asia to Africa, potentially threatening public health across a rapidly urbanizing ...