The Patterns of climate change
Researchers have developed a technique to monitor and predict how plant species will respond to climate change. The experiment was conducted in an area...
Understanding the climate impact of natural atmospheric particles
Scientists have quantified the relationship between natural sources of particles in the atmosphere and climate change. Their research shows that the cooling effect of...
Invasive plants have unprecedented ability to pioneer new continents and climates
It's no secret that globalization, aided by climate change, is helping invasive species gain a foothold across the planet. What came as something of...
Chance record of an annual mass emergence of enigmatic mantis-flies
Being neither mantids nor flies, the peculiar mantis-flies are in fact predatory lacewings which use their mantis-like forelegs to catch prey. While most mantis-flies...
Beetles’ bright colors used for camouflage instead of warning off predators
Biologists have discovered that the bright color patterns of beetles are not a warning signal to predators as previously believed, but actually a form...
Earthquakes in the Himalaya are bigger than in the Alps because tectonic plates collide...
Earthquakes that happen in densely populated mountainous regions, such as the Himalaya, spell bigger earthquakes because of a fast tectonic-plate collision, according to a...
Scientists track sharks picking DNA fragments from the sea
Traces of DNA in the sea can be used to monitor shark populations, marine ecologists have shown. Current methods of baiting, hooking and filming...
Sustainable solvent platform for photon upconversion increases solar utilization efficiency
Scientists have developed a new low-cost, environmentally friendly photon upconversion platform that achieves high thermal stability using deep eutectic solvents. Deep eutectic solvents are...
Submarine volcanoes add to ocean soundscape
Most volcanoes erupt beneath the ocean, but scientists know little about them compared to what they know about volcanoes that eject their lava on...
Next generation solvent contributes to next generation biofuel production from biomass
Compared to first-generation biofuels produced from foodstuffs, production of second-generation biofuels for daily use is an urgent issue. In this study, a novel carboxylate-type...
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