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Paleontology & Fossils 23 hours ago

Fossil frogs share their skincare secrets: Analysis of 45-million-year-old soft tissues

Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, have solved a hundred-year-old mystery of how some fossil frogs preserve their fleshy parts—it's all down to their skin.

Materials Science 18 hours ago

Unconventional technology enhances composites important to automotive, aerospace and renewable energy industries

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that demonstrates how fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials used in the automotive, aerospace and renewable energy industries ...

Environment 18 hours ago

Planting trees in grasslands won't save the planet—instead, protect and restore forests

Tree planting is one of the nature-based solutions being used to offset greenhouse gas emissions. Trees absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide. Many of these tree planting projects target Africa's rangelands (open grasslands or ...

Environment 19 hours ago

Community beach clean-ups could beat high-tech solutions for clearing plastic pollution

Local community beach cleans could be more effective than high-tech, but often unproven, removal technologies at limiting ocean plastic's harm to the environment and humans, according to a new report.

Nanomaterials 22 hours ago

Scientists stencil-paint carbon nanotube components for flexible transparent electronics

Researchers from Skoltech, MIPT, and elsewhere have found a fast and inexpensive way to create geometric patterns in carbon nanotube films. The resulting films turned out to have superior properties for manufacturing components ...