Exposing seedlings to ethylene in darkness increases size and vigor, in a finding with implications for agriculture. Farmers have worked to increase crop yields for millennia, and the quest remains urgent as the human population ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 19, 2023
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Carbon-based materials have several qualities that make them attractive as catalysts for speeding up chemical reactions. They are low-cost, lightweight and their high surface area provides a good scaffold on which to anchor ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 19, 2023
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Climate change-induced droughts and fish kills affect larger fish more severely than they affect smaller individuals, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Jul 18, 2023
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Oxygen didn't catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth's first multicellular organisms. The results of a new study defy a 70-year-old assumption about what caused an explosion of oceanic fauna hundreds of millions of years ...
Evolution
Jul 18, 2023
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New research published in Science Advances, led by Yuan Yang, associate professor of materials science at Columbia Engineering, and collaborators at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, demonstrates a novel technique for isolating ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 13, 2023
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Scientists have discovered the traces of the world's oldest known glaciers, dating from 2.9 billion years ago, in rocks sitting under the world's largest gold deposits in South Africa. This suggests the presence of continental ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 13, 2023
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Amphipods have a much smaller safety margin to cope with warmer water in rivers than has been recognized previously. They also need to get used to warmer water gradually. This is shown by the research of Wilco Verberk of ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 5, 2023
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Warmer water than that to which a fish is accustomed becomes an aggressor of sorts that impacts internal biochemical processes and forces the fish to stop growing at a smaller size than it would normally do in optimal habitat ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 28, 2023
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Changes to the flow of the Labrador Current along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to Nova Scotia are leading to sudden warmings or drops in the oxygen levels of the waters in several regions including the St. Lawrence ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2023
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A research group led by Prof. Wang Liping at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has reported the enhanced oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity and biperiodic ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 27, 2023
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