Technical testings, researches and certifications

The American campaign to win the "hearts and minds" of Afghanistan's people has the unintended consequence of provoking Taliban attacks on villages where the strategy seems to be working.

Satellite data show seasonal and regional changes in global ozone, ammonia levels

“History does not repeat itself, but it does instruct.” With those words Yale historian Timothy Snyder introduced readers to his new book, “On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century.”

Over the next century, southern Africa will see widespread decreases in maize production.

The East China Plains (ECP) region experienced the worst haze pollution on record for January in 2013.

A new food web highlights which birds, fish, insects, and other animals affected by the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010 should receive top priority for conservation, protection, and research.

New research offers insights into how crystal dislocations — a common type of defect in materials — can affect electrical and heat transport through crystals, at a microscopic, quantum mechanical level.

In the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that is “choking” on a sudden influx of stellar debris.

New research clarifies how toroidal droplets—which initially take the shape of a donut—evolve into spherical droplets by collapsing into themselves or breaking up into smaller droplets.

Organoids are proving their worth in developmental biology and personalized medicine

Researchers have discovered a new way to tune electronic energy levels in some 2-D materials.

A Humanistic Perspective of Technology", defended in the Department of Ethnology of the University of Tartu in January, demonstrates clearly that the phone has become our inseparable companion, cure for loneliness and best friend.

Penny Chisholm has had a 35-year love affair—with a microbe

Roughly 13,000 years ago, large ice-age mammals known as megafauna — horses, camels, mammoths, mastodons and many others — suddenly disappeared in North America.

As the world warmed millions of years ago, conditions in the tropics may have made it so hot some organisms couldn’t survive.