Under-threat bees have suffered more from changes to rural landscapes over the past century than from expanding towns and cities, a new report has found.
Ecology
Apr 2, 2015
0
22
In 2011, an engineering student came up with an idea to help people in the developing world deal with raw sewage. His goal was to use technology to help save lives by limiting people's exposure to the pathogens in human waste. ...
Engineering
Apr 2, 2015
0
29
Research into seagrass susceptibility to dredging activities has revealed exactly how fragile some of the tropical marine plants species are when faced with a decreased level of light.
Ecology
Apr 2, 2015
0
14
Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) are calling for the public to help protect three species of critically endangered birds.
Plants & Animals
Apr 2, 2015
0
30
The earth's climate is changing and extreme weather events are on the rise. Hurricanes are wreaking havoc with more ferocity, summers are getting warmer and winters colder. But what about our oceans? They, too, are warming.
Environment
Apr 2, 2015
0
10
Animals come in all different shapes and sizes, but only a few can change their shapes. Researchers in Ecuador recently reported a new species of frog that can change its skin texture from spiny to smooth – the first ever ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 2, 2015
0
109
Providers do not keep secret how their websites use your personal information – it's always shown in their privacy policy. But hardly anybody ever reads that information. That's why PhD candidate Elisa Costante of TU/e ...
Internet
Apr 2, 2015
0
21
Europe's pioneering probe Rosetta battled breakdowns with navigation and communication with Earth after it ran into blasts of dust and gas from the comet it is tracking, mission control said Thursday.
Space Exploration
Apr 2, 2015
49
133
More than 40,000 amateur astronomers have classified two million unidentified heavenly bodies found by the SkyMapper telescope at The Australian National University (ANU).
Astronomy
Apr 2, 2015
0
79
The action potential is widely understood as an electrical phenomenon. However, a long experimental history has documented the existence of co-propagating mechanical signatures.
General Physics
Apr 2, 2015
1
23
