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Metal-organic framework used to degrade plastics. »
From sponge's microbiome, scientists gain insights into evolutionary past. »
A more organic memristor that can process and store data is born. »
Advance could reduce emissions and help combat climate change. »
Breakthrough could lead to better particle accelerators and novel materials imaging. »
Increasing aridity contributed to Norse abandonment of settlements in the 15th century. »
Youngsters can take to the water as early as 2 days old. »
Study of organisms in the sea identifies 5,500 new species. »
Research suggests where these species may be 'hidden'. »
Clue from vast stores of helium from the Big Bang lingering in the core. »
Previously unknown migratory movement brought knowledge of maize agriculture. »
Restored oyster reefs can match natural oyster populations. »
Permafrost at high elevations is more vulnerable than Arctic permafrost. »
Breakthrough could result in new psychiatric and neurological pharmaceuticals. »
Researchers lead effort to find natural option to protect crops. »
Experiment examines the physics of plasma eruptions and solar flares. »
Scientists conduct experiment on 23 generations of tiny sea creatures. »
Scientists have found that monarch butterflies are increasingly plagued by parasites. »
Preserving tree cover may be essential in helping the gray fox survive with coyotes. »
Five-stage scoring scale gauges the harmful effects of road salt on freshwater. »
Around the world, many birds side-step the costs of parenthood by laying their eggs in the nest of other species. »
Engineers have developed "virtual eyes" that closely mimic human eye behavior. »
Icefields that stretch for hundreds of miles atop the Andes Mountains are melting. »
Spinosaurus is the biggest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered but the way it hunted has been a subject of debate for decades. »
Remains of plant material wedged between layers of volcanic rock. »
Sensor is quicker and cheaper than current opioid wastewater monitoring methods. »
Data from the research yield a new aerodynamic model and flight simulator. »
New study challenges long-held assumptions about the structure of the sun's atmosphere. »
New model shows leaves appearing 1-2 days earlier each decade. »
Humans are usually pretty good at recognising when they get things wrong, but artificial intelligence systems are not. »
Data from powerful mass spectrometer survey and document omnipresent compounds. »
New Zealand’s tuatara look like somber iguanas. But these spiny reptiles are not actually lizards. »
Australian scientists have identified a novel combination of genetics that may help wheat survive in hot and dry conditions. »
New theory to explain how Earth transformed into a planet capable of sustaining life. »
New marine phytoplankton species become a self-fertilizing system. »
The biomineralized remains are lightweight and damage resistant. »
Chocolate is made from cacao beans, and research shows that 20 - 40 percent of the world's cacao beans are lost to cacao plant diseases. »
New research provides evidence of demographic shifts in sub-Saharan Africa. »
Environmental structure affects interactions among microbial species. »
Ancient receptor protein can detect molecules in smoke from burnt plant material. »
Pharmaceutical pollution in the world’s rivers is threatening environmental and human health (...) »
Cyanide could have enabled metabolic reactions, creating carbon-based compounds. »
On a spring day 66 million years ago, an asteroid (...) »
Research on a young rift in Iceland sheds new light on the process. »
Showy features of males attract females (...) »
The world’s second-largest ice sheet is melting (...) »
Study is first to directly link cognitive power to a physical response to warming. »
Periodic wildfires in ecosystems adapted to them can help (...) »
In 2020 a team led by European Southern Observatory astronomers reported the closest black hole to Earth (...) »