New Research Reveals That Trade is a Major Driver of Biodiversity
A newly published study shows that trade is one of the major drivers of biodiversity among lizard species in the Caribbean islands, finding that the…
A newly published study shows that trade is one of the major drivers of biodiversity among lizard species in the Caribbean islands, finding that the…
A study by the international Coffee and Caffeine Genetics Consortium looked at DNA samples and data sets from the coffee-drinking habits of 120,000 people of…
Using an unusual kind of coupling between spin and the direction of propagation, physicists from the Vienna University of Technology are able to select the…
Using 2005-2013 data from the Argo buoys, NASA’s Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites and GRACE satellites, scientists found that deep ocean warming contributed virtually nothing to…
A newly published study from Oxford University and the University of Leuven reveals that the HIV pandemic with us today is almost certain to have…
By simply altering the composition of the medium in which the yeast are grown, engineers at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT were…
A newly published study from MIT details how arrays of tiny conical tips that eject ionized materials could fabricate nanoscale devices cheaply. Luis Fernando Velásquez-García’s…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory viewed gigantic filament for several days as it rotated around with the sun. If straightened out, the filament would measure about…
This newly released Hubble image shows the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4206, which is located about 70 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation…
Nuclear scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have made the most precise extraction to date of a key property of…
New research from engineers at MIT details how two-dimensional carbon “paper” can form stretchable supercapacitors to power flexible electronic devices. When someone crumples a sheet…
A newly published study reveals the importance of earthworms, beetles, and other tiny creatures to the structure of grasslands and the valuable ecosystem services they…
Currently under construction and on track to become operational early next decade, the Giant Magellan Telescope is pushing scientists to innovate and create new technology…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers studied the first few billion years of the universe to determine…
Technology adapted from NASA’s Mars rover program is being used to develop a hand-held device that will help find and fix natural gas leaks from…
This new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows of one of the most star-rich open clusters currently known — Messier 11, also known as…
A new study from the University of Cambridge reveals that the Greenland Ice Sheet, which covers 1.7 million square kilometers (656,000 square miles) and contains…
Images from NASA’s Terra satellite reveal that the eastern basin of the South Aral Sea is completely dry. This is the first time the eastern…