In the cobalt waters off San Diego, the key to tracking a powerful greenhouse gas drifts just below the surface. Tiny ocean microbes living in oxygen-starved waters turn everyday nutrients into nitrous oxide (N₂O)—a compound ...
Ecology
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Kākāpō, the world's only flightless parrots, have managed to avoid developing dangerous antibiotic-resistant superbugs so far, despite conservationists often needing to use antibiotics to treat their debilitating "crusty ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 21, 2025
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Once considered a fringe idea, the prospect of offsetting global warming by releasing massive quantities of sunlight-reflecting particles into Earth's atmosphere is now a matter of serious scientific consideration. Hundreds ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2025
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The rapid and energy-efficient synthesis of high-performance catalysts is a critical hurdle in advancing clean energy technologies like hydrogen production. Addressing this challenge, a research team at KAIST has now developed ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 21, 2025
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A research team led by Professor Jong Sung Yu of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST has developed a new alloy structure that can significantly enhance the performance of electrode catalysts, a key component ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 21, 2025
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By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of object that lies between a star and a planet—orbiting a small star about 55 light-years from Earth. ...
Astronomy
Oct 21, 2025
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Warming temperatures and earlier snowmelt are disrupting the long-running relationship between wildflowers and their pollinators on Colorado's Pikes Peak.
Plants & Animals
Oct 21, 2025
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A research team has taken a major step forward in the field of spintronics, a technology that uses not only the charge but also the spin of electrons to create faster, smarter, and more energy-efficient electronic devices. ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 21, 2025
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Gully washer. Duck drownder. Toad strangler. Cob floater. Sod soaker. Whatever their names, summer in the Midwest isn't summer without strong, sudden storms with towering clouds. While the Indian subcontinent is famous for ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2025
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When improperly folded proteins build up in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), cells become stressed and conditions such as type 2 diabetes, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancers can develop. In a recent study published in ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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