Light green plants save nitrogen without sacrificing photosynthetic efficiency
Scientists designed plants with light green leaves with hopes of allowing more light to penetrate the crop canopy and increase overall light use efficiency...
Algorithm provides early warning system for tracking groundwater contamination
Scientists have developed a low-cost method for real-time monitoring of pollutants using commonly available sensors.
Krypton reveals ancient water beneath the Israeli desert
Getting reliable precipitation data from the past has proven difficult, as is predicting regional changes for climate models in the present. A combination of...
Origin of life: Did Darwinian evolution begin before life itself?
A study done by physicists demonstrates that fundamental characteristics of polymeric molecules, such as their subunit composition, are sufficient to trigger selection processes in...
Natural gas used in homes contains hazardous air pollutants
Every day, millions of Americans rely on natural gas to power appliances such as kitchen stoves, furnaces, and water heaters, but until now very...
Photos suggest rhino horns have shrunk over past century, likely due to hunting
By scrutinizing over a century's worth of photos, University of Cambridge researchers have made the first ever measurements that show rhinoceros horns have gradually...
Wildfires set to increase: could we be sitting on a tinderbox in Europe?
2017 was one of the worst years on record for fires in Europe, with over 800,000 hectares of land burnt in Portugal, Italy and...
What makes two species different?
For most of the 20th century, scientists believed that the reproductive incompatibility between species evolved gradually as a by-product of adapting to different environments....
Ecologists find evidence that pet and medicine trades bring tokay geckos from across Asia...
New research has been investigating the origins of tokay geckos in Hong Kong, both the wild ones and those sold in Traditional Chinese Medicine...
Reducing tropical cyclone impacts: The double benefit of climate protection through both limiting and...
Increasing global warming from currently one to two degrees Celsius by mid-century might lead to about 25 percent more people put at risk by...
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