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Environment Mar 26, 2024

This mega-city is running out of water: What will 22 million people do when the taps run dry?

When Reina Cervantes Trejo heard the truck, gears grinding as it climbed the street to her house, she rushed outside.

Space Exploration Mar 18, 2024

Astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, has died at age 93

Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. He was 93.

Cell & Microbiology Feb 22, 2024

Live imaging reveals key cell dynamics in 3D organ formation in Drosophila

Animal development requires successive changes in cell and tissue structures. To form complex 3D organs, cell shapes must adapt to support tissue morphogenesis. However, our understanding of how cellular structure changes ...

Analytical Chemistry Feb 16, 2024

Researchers expand ways to improve the selectivity of catalytic reactions

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, and Utrecht University have reported on a previously elusive way to improve ...

General Physics Jan 24, 2024

Physics of V-shaped flight formations offer insights into energy efficiency

Birds have inspired human flight for centuries, but Shabnam Raayai thinks they can also offer lessons in reducing energy consumption.

Plants & Animals Jan 22, 2024

Fixing the cormorant disaster on the Columbia: 'How could this have come out any worse?'

White streaks of bird waste paint the steel trusses beneath the Astoria-Megler Bridge over the Columbia River. Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests. Black birds roost on the ...

Space Exploration Oct 26, 2023

China launches new mission to space station

China sent a fresh crew to its Tiangong space station on Thursday, in the latest mission for a growing space program that plans to send people to the Moon by 2030.

Social Sciences Oct 20, 2023

New 'healing' prison in Ireland points to long history of progressive penal reform

Ireland has formally opened the new women's wing of the Limerick prison.

Plants & Animals Oct 17, 2023

Study combines drones with GPS tracking to survey feral pig abundance and density

A Charles Darwin University (CDU) study has identified early evening, or a wet season morning, as the prime time for surveying feral pigs from sky-high drones, which could help land rangers to improve management of the stealthy ...

Environment Aug 31, 2023

Greek summer wildfires will burn over 150,000 hectares: PM

Devastating wildfires in Greece will ravage more than 150,000 hectares (370,600 acres) by the end of the summer, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis estimated Thursday, blaming the climate crisis for the disaster.

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