Nanowalls, nanobridges, nano "jungle gyms": It could seem like the description of a Lilliputian village, but these are actual 3-D-printed components with potential applications in nanoelectronics, smart materials and biomedical ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 19, 2019
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Insurance schemes with the potential to improve the resilience of global fisheries face a host of future challenges, researchers say.
Environment
Nov 25, 2019
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has found that genetics played a large role in changes in height for Europeans over the past 38,000 years. In their paper published in Proceedings of ...
Two teams of researchers, one in Korea, the other China, have devised two different types of invisibility cloaks for water applications. Both teams have published papers describing their work in the journal Physical Review ...
Physiological coordination between plant height and xylem hydraulic traits is aligned with habitat water availability across Earth's terrestrial biomes, according to a new study. Ecologists from the South China Botanical ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 6, 2019
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Using a 25-year record of ESA satellite data, recent research shows that the pace at which Greenland is losing ice is getting faster.
Earth Sciences
Dec 7, 2018
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Geologists from the University of Innsbruck study rainfall patterns in the distant past to better understand how deserts in the southwest United States will be impacted by future climate change.
Environment
Oct 25, 2018
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Plants in the Arctic are growing taller because of climate change, according to new research from a global scientific collaboration led by the University of Edinburgh.
Environment
Sep 26, 2018
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Tropical rainforests play a critical role in regulating the global climate system—they represent the Earth's largest terrestrial CO2 sink. Because of its broad geographical expanse and year-long productivity, the Amazon ...
Earth Sciences
May 28, 2018
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Average winter wave heights along the Atlantic coast of Western Europe have been rising for almost seven decades, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2018
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