For some urban areas, a warming climate is only half the threat
A new study projects that the growth of urban areas in the coming decades will trigger ''extra'' warming due to a phenomenon known as the...
Genes borrowed from bacteria allowed plants to move to land
Natural genetic engineering allowed plants to move from water to land, according to a new study.
There are variations in plankton biodiversity and activity from the equator to the poles
New results between 2009 and 2013 show that the diversity and functions of planktonic species in the global ocean change dramatically according to latitude.
Butterflies take different paths to arrive at same color pattern
An international team of scientists working with Heliconius butterflies in Panama was faced with a mystery: how do pairs of unrelated butterflies from Peru...
Global climate change concerns for Africa’s Lake Victoria
Researchers have developed a model to project lake levels in world's largest tropical lake.
New material breaks world record turning heat into electricity
Thermoelectric materials convert heat into electrical energy. The amount of energy that can be generated is measured by the so-called ZT value. The best...
Simulation reveals how bacterial organelle converts sunlight to chemical energy
Scientists have simulated every atom of a light-harvesting structure in a photosynthetic bacterium that generates energy for the organism. The simulated organelle behaves just...
Researchers create and stabilize pure polymeric nitrogen using plasma
Researchers have reported the production of the first pure polymeric nitrogen compound at near-ambient conditions. The substance, which has existed only in theory for...
Future rainfall could far outweigh current climate predictions in UK
Scientists analyzed rainfall records from the 1870s to the present day with their findings showing there could be large divergence in projected rainfall by...
Modeling every building in America starts with Chattanooga
Researchers used a supercomputer to model every building serviced by the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga -- all 178,368 of them -- and discovered...
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The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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