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Thin film could upgrade a consumer smartwatch into a health monitor. »
Evolution transforms plants into some of nature's best biochemists. »
New model for deep-seated landslides could help stop catastrophes in their tracks. »
Disease outbreaks not confined to humans nor to life on land. »
Thousands of words, big and small, are crammed inside our memory banks just waiting to be swiftly withdrawn and strung into sentences. »
Trees' carbon storage has implications for forest management. »
Indirect contact has implications for understanding disease spread. »
Discovery has important implications regarding development of Maya civilization. »
National Institutes of Health investigators and colleagues have discovered that when the immune system (...) »
Extensive burning in Siberia was a cause of the Permo-Triassic extinction. »
Inexpensive sensor works on minimal power and is 20 times more sensitive than traditional sensors. »
Born from an exploded star, the infant magnetar belongs to a family of extreme objects called neutron stars. »
Hummingbirds can perceive colors that the human eye cannot, thanks to the addition of an extra cone in the hummingbird's eye that we don't possess. »
Permafrost soil types can be predicted based on the surrounding landscape. »
Including a planet's mantle necessary when considering evolution of its surface and life. »
Pockets of landscape less prone than adjacent areas to disturbances such as fire and drought may hold the key for scientists (...) »
An international group of researchers predicts in a new study that by 2050 the world’s mangroves will vanish if the rate of sea-level rise exceeds six millimetres per year. »
Digital displays are lit by surrounding light and look more natural than current displays. »
Satellite data can detect impact on vegetation of fog loss due to climate change. »
Being a "glass half empty" person is not good for brain, according to a new study. »
Highly porous sponge selectively soaks up oil, sparing water and wildlife. »
First research to measure the bioaerosol composition of the Southern Ocean. »
Climate change shifting how plants use water. »
Researchers have identified two brain phenomena that may explain some of the side-effects of ketamine. »
Chicxulub crater may have harbored a vast, long-lived hydrothermal system. »
For the first time, a team of archaeologists has succeeded in mapping a complete Roman city using advanced ground penetrating radar. »
Network of tectonic plates was in place at least a billion years earlier than thought. »
The most common organism in the oceans, and possibly on the entire planet, is a family of single-celled marine bacteria called SAR11. »
Study reveals connection between new experiences, happiness, and increased brain activity. »
Vegetarians are many times told that they may not get enough protein. A concern that can be eliminated with a bit of research based on the USDA food database and RDA. »
Tropical forests contain some of the most biodiverse and dynamic ecosystems in the world. »
Beneath the ocean's surface, a virus is hijacking the metabolism of one of the most abundant organisms on Earth. »
Study supports link between high levels of gram-negative bacteria and a stroke- seizure- and headache-inducing vascular malformation. »
Astronomers using European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes have discovered giant spots on the surface of extremely hot stars hidden in stellar clusters. »
Disk observed when the universe was only 10% of its current age. »
Tree pollen remains in the air up to 11 hours after rains. »
Twelve minutes into the flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, the spacecraft separated from the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage, signaling the end of the climb to space. »
Polar ice sheets melting faster than previously estimated may result in the oceans rising by as much as 1.3 metres by 2100, according to projections in a new international study. »
Tropical forests can develop resistance to a warmer climate, but 71 per cent will come under threat in the next decade if global average temperatures reach two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a new study warns. »
SpaceX successfully launched its first crewed mission at 1922 UTC yesterday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in a Crew Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket. »
A second wave of desert locusts in Africa and Asia is threatening famine for millions as critical resources are directed towards the COVID-19 crisis, scientists warn. »
Scientists use genomics, archaeology, and climate data to reconstruct history of rice. »
Scientists found significant benefit to the environment and to crop yield in no-till agriculture. »
Chia is considered a pseudocereal commonly used as food in several countries of South America, Mexico, and the United States. »
Scientists have discovered that bumblebees can cause plants to flower as much as 30 days ahead of schedule by biting their leaves. »
To find out, scientists shake up balancing act of plant metabolism. »
Newly developed robots can move quickly on solid surfaces or in water. »
In a recently published study, researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa revealed the largest and hottest shield volcano on Earth. »
An Agricultural Research Service team in Peoria, Illinois, has devised a procedure for using bacteria to convert glucose from bread waste into value-added products such as ascorbic acid (vitamin C), which is used in everything from food and beverages to pharmaceutical and personal-care products. »
New information helps scientists understand processes that lead to devastating storms. »