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Environment Apr 26, 2024

Energy trades could help resolve Nile conflict

Scientists have shed light on a new, transformative approach that could help resolve a dispute over the Nile river's water resources.

Environment Apr 26, 2024

How to clean up New Delhi's smoggy air

An international study led by atmospheric researchers at PSI shows for the first time what portions of particulates in the air over northern India are especially harmful to health.

Analytical Chemistry Apr 26, 2024

Scientists discover safer alternative for an explosive reaction used for more than 100 years

The chemical industry has been using a reaction with explosive chemicals for more than 100 years—now Mülheim scientists have discovered a safer alternative. The Ritter Group of the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung ...

Cell & Microbiology Apr 26, 2024

New structures offer insight into how a bacterial motor powers bacterial chemotaxis, a key infectious process

Bacteria existed for millennia before humans and have been infecting us from the beginning. Although we can treat infections through pharmaceuticals, bacteria continue to become resistant to treatment thanks to their rapid ...

Analytical Chemistry Apr 26, 2024

One-pot strategy to simultaneously achieve heterodehydrocoupling of hydrostannane and reduction of quinoline

Heteroatom tin compounds (SSn, OSn, NSn, PSn) composed of heteroatoms S, O, N, P and tin atoms have attracted intense attention due to their wide applications in organic synthesis and pharmaceutical fields. The current methods ...

Plants & Animals Apr 26, 2024

Feds greenlight return of grizzly bears to Washington's North Cascades

The National Parks Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service filed a decision April 25 outlining a plan to capture three to seven grizzlies from other ecosystems in the Rocky Mountains or interior British Columbia and release ...

Cell & Microbiology Apr 26, 2024

Genomic analysis of a species of zooplankton questions assumptions about speciation and gene regulation

When two animals look the same, eat the same, behave the same way, and live in similar environments, one might expect that they belong to the same species.

Astronomy Apr 26, 2024

Research investigates radio emission of the rotating radio transient RRAT J1854+0306

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have investigated radio emission from a rotating radio transient known as RRAT J1854+0306. Results of the study, published April ...

Ecology Apr 26, 2024

Granting legal 'personhood' to nature is a growing movement: Can it stem biodiversity loss?

Biodiversity is declining at rates unprecedented in human history. This suggests the ways we currently use to manage our natural environment are failing.

Ecology Apr 26, 2024

Nature conservation works, and we're getting better at it, says new study

To work in nature conservation is to battle a headwind of bad news. When the overwhelming picture indicates the natural world is in decline, is there any room for optimism? Well, our new global study has some good news: we ...

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