Humanity is on the threshold of being able to detect signs of alien life on other worlds. By studying exoplanet atmospheres, we can look for gases like oxygen and methane that only coexist if replenished by life. But those ...
Astronomy
Jul 23, 2014
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A 2°C increase in temperature around the world by 2050, according to one of the scenarios predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), may be advantageous to the physiology and the biochemical and biophysical ...
Ecology
Jul 23, 2014
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As local and national governments struggle to deal with ever-growing piles of electronic waste (or "e-waste"), scientists are now refining the picture of just how much there is and where it really ends up. Published in the ...
Environment
Jul 23, 2014
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The disastrous March 22 landslide that killed 43 people in the rural Washington state community of Oso involved the "remobilization" of a 2006 landslide on the same hillside, a new federally sponsored geological study concludes.
Earth Sciences
Jul 23, 2014
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DNA has the nasty habit of getting tangled and forming knots. Scientists study these knots to understand their function and learn how to disentangle them (e.g. useful for gene sequencing techniques). Cristian Micheletti, ...
General Physics
Jul 23, 2014
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2013 proved a record year for jellyfish sightings, large numbers already reported through 2014
Ecology
Jul 23, 2014
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Geographers at the University of Southampton have found a link between increasing average temperatures in India and a reduction in wheat production.
Biotechnology
Jul 23, 2014
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Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the Vienna University of Technology and the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Lublin have succeeded in embedding nearly perfect semiconductor crystals into ...
Nanophysics
Jul 23, 2014
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Workers with the Insect Museum of West China, who were recently given several very large dragon-fly looking insects, with long teeth, by locals in a part of Sichuan, have declared it, a giant dobsonfly the largest known aquatic ...
The blood flow to leg bones in birds has been shown to correlate to their locomotion patterns.
Plants & Animals
Jul 23, 2014
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