Bat populations are showing signs of recovery in the UK, according to a citizen science programme. The authors of a recent study which reports the programme’s findings say that this shows volunteers can successfully monitor wild species and produce robust data suitable for policy purposes.

Monitoring and assessment of habitats is essential to evaluate biodiversity policy and improve the condition of valuable ecosystems. A new study has reviewed the value of remote sensing — using information from satellite or airborne imagery — for this purpose, and the authors make a series of key recommendations, including the importance of tailoring remote sensing output for policymakers.

Social scientists have been advising on environmental issues for decades, but their contributions to policy remain unclear. This study analysed how social scientists interact with policymakers and provides recommendations for future engagement.

Citizen scientists have helped to map pollution across the Netherlands using their smartphones. Their results, produced by thousands of volunteers, are presented in a study which shows how a combination of mass participation and smartphone technology can be a powerful approach to environmental monitoring.

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An international research team jointly led by NTU Singapore, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Germany's Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) has for the first time observed the ultrafast formation and then breakdown of the water ion that is created when water is exposed to ionising radiation....

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​Scientists from NTU have transformed pollen, known as the diamond of the plant kingdom for its toughness, into a soft, flexible material that could serve as a 'building block' for a new category of eco-friendly materials....

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Scientists at NTU Singapore have developed the prototype of a handheld medical imaging device that can produce images down to resolutions of 1 to 2 micrometres. This is detailed enough to spot the first signs of tumours in specific cells and is about 100 times higher resolution than what X-Ray, computed tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines can provide....

Scientists at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) have created a paper-like material derived from pollen that bends and curls in response to changing levels of environmental humidity....

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Primary care health workers now have a guide for conducting remote consultation of suspected COVID-19 patients, developed by a team of researchers from Singapore and the UK....

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Nobel Prize-winning scientist Tim Hunt talked about his 'trouble with girls' this week, and women in the scientific community responded perfectly.

The hashtag has started to trend as academics compete for cooler-than-you tweets. But you probably haven't heard of it.

The reasons behind why almost 1,300 ill sea lions have beached themselves on California's shores in 2013 remain unclear..

Crab-like creatures or camera lens covers? NASA and other experts weigh in.

Why is Venus rotating 6.5 minutes slower than it was just 16 years ago?

A NASA sun-watching spacecraft will have an unbeatable view of June's historic Venus transit, but some of the probe's scientists are taking measures to get a gr

The latest black hole discovery opens a whole new universe of not-so-big black holes.

A star from a distant galaxy produced the most intense X-ray blast ever.

Polar bears and brown bears diverged much longer ago than previously thought.

Video: Teams from the Disaster Research Center (DRC) go to devastated locations to learn more about how lives may be saved in the future.

Team of scientists and engineers head to the heart of earthquake country to learn more about predicting when and where an earthquake will happen — before the

An MNN column causes an uproar in the scientific and not-so-scientific community. Our columnist responds.

The Indian long pepper's use in traditional medicine dates back thousands of years.

Climate scientist James Hansen was arrested on Feb. 13 outside the White House while protesting the Keystone Pipeline.

At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a massive liquid lake that has been cut off fro

Magnesite has long been known as a CO2 absorber, but the slow rate of its growth made it a poor carbon storage option. Until now.

Can something as subjective as happiness be measured by a formula?

Neanderthals might be extinct, but their genes still live on inside of us.

Turtles use their shells as shields today, but these devices evolved for a completely different reason, paleontologists learn.

The find confirms that America's earliest human inhabitants were here much sooner than previously thought.

HIV might never have become a global pandemic if it wasn't for the ecology of what is now known as Kinshasa, and what was then a 1920s colonial hub.

After scrutinizing thousands of peer-reviewed climate studies, the largest analysis of its kind reveals a 'gaping chasm' between science and public perception.

Scientist captures stunning sunrise during a research mission to study polar ice in the Arctic circle.

In a small sample, scientists have discovered microplastics in human poop, with every sample containing some. The most common were polypropylene and PET.

But for now only the penguins can enjoy them. (Turns out, mining is illegal in Antarctica.)

The breakthrough works like a rechargeable battery that is charged by sunlight.

Using a sample from the very riser pipe that the plume escaped from, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution chemist Christopher Reddy and his team ascertained tha

Academic Board of Inquiry has cleared the scientist at the center of "Climategate" and his "trick." So will the spin machine finally shut up?

Phil Jones and The Union of Concerned Scientists say The Daily Mail misrepresented a statement about climate change data to support skeptics' claims.

255 top climate scientists are reiterating their conclusions on global warming in the face of increased e-mail attacks.

The release, quickly dubbed "Climategate 2.0" after the initial 2009 "Climategate" hacking, drew strong condemnation from scientists involved in the emails, as

The analog DNA circuit can perform addition, subtraction and multiplication.