Measuring the results of scientific research has seen little federal focus until now. Is it possible to create such a system? What would be the inputs, outputs and structure of the system? What ...

NASA’s Earth Observing System provides nearly 30 years of continuous, high-quality measurements of Earth’s land, oceans, atmosphere, and ice, supporting climate research and long-term environmental ...

In a new paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we, alongside colleagues from a diverse range of fields, investigate the prevalence and extent of censorship and self-censorship ...

Measuring the 'wettability' of graphene and other 2D materials. Microscopic understanding of wettability can be achieved at the molecular level using 'vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy ...

Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Caesium is a soft, silvery-gold metal that becomes liquid when stored in a warm room. It is mostly found in mineral ...

Research into graphene—a sheet of carbon a single atom thick—has yielded measurements of the intrinsic strength of the material, showing that graphene is the strongest material ever encountered.