Summer fun: How plants beat the heat
Researchers have discovered a gene in plants that helps protect them from excessive heat. The study shows that the newly found gene prevents the...
Upper and lower plate controls on the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake
Researchers have been studying the great Tohoku-oki earthquake which occurred on March 11, 2011, to the east of Japan's Honshu Island.
Porous materials shed light on environmental purification
Scientists have developed stable single-crystalline porous hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks that are thermally and chemically durable and have large surface area and fluorescence properties. Through...
A bird’s eye view of the Arctic
Drones and other unmanned technologies can cost-effectively collect weather data in harsh or remote environments and contribute to better weather and climate models, according...
Some of the world’s poorest people are bearing the costs of tropical forest conservation
Researchers show that new conservation restrictions in Madagascar bring very significant costs to local people (representing up to 85 percent of local annual incomes)....
Bacteria-powered solar cell converts light to energy, even under overcast skies
Researchers have found a cheap, sustainable way to build a solar cell using bacteria that convert light to energy. Their cell generated a current...
Oxygen loss in the coastal Baltic Sea is ‘unprecedentedly severe’
The Baltic Sea is home to some of the world's largest dead zones, areas of oxygen-starved waters where most marine animals can't survive. But...
Anti-Bat-Signal: Moths with larger hindwings and longer tails are best at deflecting bats
Each night, dramatic aerial battles are waged above our heads, complete with barrel rolls, razor-sharp turns, sonar jamming, cloaking devices and life-or-death consequences.
In India, swapping crops could save water and improve nutrition
India will need to feed approximately 394 million more people by 2050. Meanwhile, many of its regions are chronically water-stressed, and nutrient deficiencies are...
Frigid polar oceans, not balmy coral reefs, are species-formation hot spots
Tropical oceans teem with the dazzle and flash of colorful reef fishes and contain far more species than the cold ocean waters found at...
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