Specialized plant cells regain stem-cell features to heal wounds
If plants are injured, cells adjacent to the wound fill the gaps with their daughter cells. However, which cells divide to do the healing...
Tapping fresh water under the ocean has consequences
While offshore groundwater resources could be used for drinking, agriculture and oil recovery, new research suggests tapping into them could lead to adverse impacts...
Localized efforts to save coral reefs won’t be enough, study suggests
A new study of factors that cause corals stress suggests that localized attempts to curb pollution on reefs won't save them without a worldwide...
Forest fires accelerating snowmelt across western US
Forest fires are causing snow to melt earlier in the season, a trend occurring across the western US that may affect water supplies and...
Fracking: Earthquakes are triggered well beyond fluid injection zones
Using data from field experiments and computer modeling of ground faults, researchers have discovered that the practice of subsurface fluid injection used in 'fracking'...
When it comes to planetary habitability, it’s what’s inside that counts
Can the geologic and dynamic features that make our home planet habitable be produced on planets with different compositions?
Arsenic-breathing life discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean
In low-oxygen parts of the ocean, some microbes are surviving by getting energy from arsenic. This holdover from the ancient Earth was not known...
Explosive volcanism during ice age: study provides lessons for today’s rising carbon dioxide
A study recently found that explosive volcanic eruptions were at least three to eight times more frequent during the peak of the Late Paleozoic...
India could meet air quality standards by cutting household fuel use
India could make a major dent in air pollution by curbing emissions from dirty household fuels such as wood, dung, coal and kerosene, shows...
Mathematician’s breakthrough on non-toxic pest control
Breakthrough 'gene silencing' technique uses naturally occurring soil bacteria to kill specific crop-destroying pests without harming other insects or the environment. Non-toxic pest control...
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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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