Nigeria has too many prison inmates awaiting trial—technology could achieve swifter justice

Global climate finance leaves out cities: Fixing it is critical to battling climate change

Opinion: Why COP27 should be the last of these pointless corporate love-ins

In new book, doctor sees humanity devouring itself and the planet

Ray of hope? One place where reef manta rays are thriving

UK polar research ship to make 2nd voyage to Antarctica

How NASA's Deep Space Network supports the agency's missions

Researchers use random numbers to precisely describe the warm dense hydrogen found in some planet interiors

Government can minimize racial inequality in criminal justice by reducing police stops, detention, and long sentences

Footprints claimed as evidence of ice age humans in North America need better dating, new research claims

Emergent bilinguals lost vital instruction during remote learning, study shows

Researchers ready for a new space mission to shed light on Brazil's vexing GPS problem

Little objective evidence to show effectiveness of learner-centered teaching methods, study warns

Health harms of mass shootings ripple across communities

Word choice and media exposure affected anti-Asian boycotts during the pandemic, study finds

New discoveries made about a promising solar cell material, thanks to new microscope

A gene from 28 million years ago protects today's plants against caterpillars

After the break‐up: How divorcing affects individuals at work

Making mosquitoes' love songs fall on deaf ears

A new one-step, green and economical way to prepare layered double hydroxides

New critical period of embryonic sex determination in sea turtles identified

Powerful linear accelerator begins smashing atoms—how it could reveal rare forms of matter

EXPLAINER: NASA's new mega moon rocket, Orion crew capsule

Roman roads laid the foundation for modern-day prosperity, study claims

Ending the climate crisis has one simple solution: Stop using fossil fuels

It'll be tough to stop an asteroid at the last minute, but not impossible, study claims

Effects of climate change such as flooding make existing disadvantages for Indigenous communities so much worse

Why it's important to understand the unique plight of internally displaced people in Africa

Ants' farming practices and efficient navigation techniques could inspire solutions for human problems

Influx of students from India drives US college enrollment up, but the number of students from China is down

From cell walls to photosynthesis: How does manganese get to where it needs to go in plants?

Clock is ticking for negotiators at climate conference in Egypt

WALLABY survey builds an intergalactic map in the Outback

The World Population Just Hit 8 Billion and Here's How It Will Continue to Grow

Visiting nuclear shelters in Prague to see how cities could prepare for nuclear war

8 billion humans alive today—let's talk overpopulation, and why low-income countries aren't the issue

Calls for a 'one-child policy' in India are misguided at best, and dangerous at worst

How metal-munching microbes help the rare, toxic element tellurium circulate in the environment

Little objective evidence to show effectiveness of learner-centered teaching methods

Restoring Mayotte's lagoon: When a newly born volcano meets human resilience

Why California Wildfires Burned Far Less This Year

Scientists identify novel essential non-nuclear roles of spliceosome protein during neuronal connectivity

Dam safety: Study indicates probable maximum flood events will significantly increase over next 80 years

Vulnerable giants: Fractured skulls shed light on possible prehistoric hunting patterns

Honeybee lifespan could be half what it was 50 years ago—new study

New report shows forests have big role to play in climate change fight

Colliding magnetic fields reveal unknown planets

Delhi's toxic haze 'fueled by political wrangling'

Don't take greenwashing at face value, authors argue

Strong European support for space to combat climate crisis

'Think globally, act locally' with new bird conservation tool

Evolutionary analysis shows SARS-CoV-2 variants converging

Earliest human fossils in the UK reveal how ancient Europeans were connected

Powerful impact provides insight into deep structure of Mars

A novel method for generating naive human iPS cells with significantly higher differentiation potency

15 ways to reforest the planet: International scientists call for decade of global action

Relationship between helium behavior and radiation damage in MAX phase material

Two studies quantify bias in US higher education

A bench-top Kibble balance to perform ultrasonic power measurements

Hydrogen bonding promotes photocatalytic alcohol coupling

Researchers unveil patterns of species diversity and determinants in temperate forest

Active monitoring needed in Australian modern slavery reporting regime

Baby's vaccine responses linked to birth delivery method, study finds

Increased need for mental health care strains capacity

Dam safety: New study indicates probable maximum flood events will significantly increase over next 80 years

A chemical reaction as good as gold

Cosmic chocolate pralines: General neutron star structure revealed

Promise of better treatment for diabetes in Greenland after discovery of widespread genetic variant

People with attachment anxiety more likely to create false memories when they can see the person talking

A hard pillbug to swallow: First X-rays of frog feeding show how they consume prey

Autonomous crawling soft 'ringbots' can navigate narrow gaps

Tiny molecules in breast milk may protect infants from developing allergies

Wireless earphones as inexpensive hearing aids

Study compares adverse events after two types of bariatric surgery in adolescents

Prehistoric predator? Artificial intelligence says no

A chemical reaction as good as gold for future technologies

Welsh 'weird wonder' fossils add piece to puzzle of arthropod evolution

220,000 metric tons of methane likely released from Nord Stream gas leak

Study: Teachers must stand up to bullying of LBGTQIA+ students

Study shows cash transfers from rich to poor can increase happiness of the poor

How do refugees in the United States learn about race?

The unimon, a new qubit to boost quantum computers for useful applications

Spatiotemporal segregation of chiral supramolecular polymers

Changing our diet would help absorb global food shocks, international study finds

A next generation material that adapts to its history

Beneficial and beautiful: Biodiversity of meadows and pastures can be an asset for nature, agriculture, and tourism

Messel boa: Live birth in a 47-million-year-old snake

Teachers experienced more anxiety than health care workers during the pandemic, mental health study finds

Collaboration at all levels of government key to climate action, say researchers

'Nature's Envelope': A simple device that reveals the scope and scale of all biological processes

Rich nations target $20 bn to wean Indonesia off coal

Volume of plastic waste in Jakarta rivers revealed

Slow-moving shell of water can make Parkinson's proteins 'stickier'

Evidence found of ions behaving differently than expected in fusion reactions

Soccer industry continues to marginalize ethnically diverse coaches

New technique to create thermally stable, high-entropy alloys

The Cyber Defense Index 2022/23

Hemp as animal feed can affect the health of cows and their milk

Condensation of transcriptional regulator SEUSS mediates osmotic stress perception and response in Arabidopsis

Genetic duplication governs nitrogen fixation symbiosis between legumes, bacteria

Number theorist may have proposed a solution to the Landau-Siegel zeros conjecture

Neurotoxicological hazard assessment without animal testing

Urban-rural connections could boost resilience in the face of change

New aspects of surface wetting revealed

How JWST Is Changing Our View of the Universe

The Stunning First Results from JWST

Why we need to do a better job of measuring AI’s carbon footprint

Which Animals Catch COVID? This Database Has Dozens of Species and Counting

Scientists find new variations among sperm cells

Cosmic chocolate pralines? General neutron star structure revealed

Mental Health Apps Are Not Keeping Your Data Safe

Prehistoric predator? Artificial intelligence says no

Researchers develop new, heat-efficient nanoparticles for treating cancer

NASA returning to the Moon with mega rocket launch

World Population hits 8 billion, creating many challenges

Tencent wants you to pay with your palm. What could go wrong?

Remote undersea volcano likely erupting in Pacific Ocean

Earth at 8 billion: Consumption not crowd is key to climate

Feeling poorer than your friends in early adolescence is associated with worse mental health, study finds

Desert dust collected from glacier ice helps document climate change

Brain area thought to impart consciousness, behaves instead like an Internet router

AI transforms smartwatch ECG signals into a diagnostic tool for heart failure

Study identifies how stealthy HIV evades drugs and immunity

How long can exotic nuclei survive at the edge of stability?

Dams could play a big role in feeding the world more sustainably

Showing off: Wild chimpanzees show others objects simply to share attention

Cracking the chemical code on how iodine helps form clouds

New, heat-efficient nanoparticles for treating cancer

Future of UK churches at risk unless they reimagine their buildings, report finds