Plants & Animals Sep 12, 2024

Antarctica's receding sea ice could impact seabirds' food supply

Antarctica's rapidly receding sea ice could have a negative impact on the food supply of seabirds that breed hundreds of miles away from the continent. Most of the world's albatrosses, and their close relatives, petrels, ...

Cell & Microbiology Sep 12, 2024

Researchers develop new technique to watch microbial populations interact

Microscopic organisms such as bacteria and fungi live together in neighborhoods known as microbial consortia. Some of these neighborhoods naturally exist in soils, food, water, and even the human gut and skin. Others are ...

Plants & Animals 23 hours ago

'Scuba-diving' lizards use bubble to breathe underwater and avoid predators

Presenting the world's smallest (and scrappiest) scuba diver: A species of semi-aquatic lizard produces a special bubble over its nostrils to breathe underwater and avoid predators, according to new research from Binghamton ...

Ecology Sep 17, 2024

Antarctic krill can lock away similar levels of carbon as seagrass and mangroves, finds study

Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, according to new research.

Earth Sciences Sep 16, 2024

An AI tool for scanning sand grains opens windows into recent time and the deep past

Stanford researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based tool—dubbed SandAI—that can reveal the history of quartz sand grains going back hundreds of millions of years. With SandAI, researchers can tell with ...

General Physics Sep 13, 2024

A fundamental magnetic property of the muon measured to unprecedented precision

Scientists have measured the magnetic moment of the muon to unprecedented precision, more than doubling the previous record.

Analytical Chemistry Sep 11, 2024

Superior light-to-chemical energy conversion with Coulombic dyads

Inspired by nature's photosynthesis, photocatalysts use light to trigger a chemical reaction that would otherwise only occur at high temperatures or under harsh conditions. For this concept to be widely applicable in an economical ...

Condensed Matter Sep 12, 2024

Wave scattering simulation unlocks potential metamaterials

A new software package developed by researchers at Macquarie University can accurately model the way waves—sound, water or light—are scattered when they meet complex configurations of particles.

Plants & Animals 13 hours ago

Scientists quantify energetic costs of the migratory lifestyle in a free flying songbird

Millions of birds migrate every year to escape winter, but spending time in a warmer climate does not save them energy, according to research by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB). Using miniaturized loggers ...

Bio & Medicine 6 hours ago

DNA origami and fluorescent probes can precisely release molecular cargo

In the world of nanotechnology, the development of dynamic systems that respond to molecular signals is becoming increasingly important. The DNA origami technique, whereby DNA is programmed so as to produce functional nanostructures, ...

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