Focusing on key sustainable development goals would boost progress across all, analysis finds
The world could make greater progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by prioritizing a subset of the goals rather than pursuing them...
Flexible solar cells a step closer to reality
Solar cells that use mixtures of organic molecules to absorb sunlight and convert it to electricity, that can be applied to curved surfaces such...
Promising mobile technologies find methane leaks quickly
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Satellite data record shows climate change’s impact on fires
While every fire needs a spark to ignite and fuel to burn, it's the hot and dry conditions in the atmosphere that determine the...
Tides don’t always flush water out to sea
In Willapa Bay in Washington state, scientists discovered that water washing over tidal flats during high tides is largely the same water that washed...
Electric eel produces highest voltage discharge of any known animal
South American rivers are home to at least three different species of electric eels, including a newly identified species capable of generating a greater...
Microorganisms reduce methane release from the ocean
Bacteria in the Pacific Ocean remove large amounts of the greenhouse gas methane.
Numerical simulations probe mechanisms behind sand dune formation
After noticing how the construction of dams significantly alter the hydrodynamics of natural rivers and the resulting downstream riverbed evolution, researchers decided to apply...
Do animals control earth’s oxygen level?
For the first time, researchers have measured how the production of algae and the Earth's oxygen level affect each other -- what you might...
Colorful microreactors utilize sunlight
The sun is the most sustainable energy source available on our planet and could be used to power photochemical reactions. Scientists now present a...
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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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