Ground shaking during devastating flood offers new insights
Scientists were able to record a sudden outburst of a glacial lake with seismometers deployed the year before in the wake of the catastrophic...
Scientists call for microbial ‘Noah’s Ark’ to protect global health
A team of researchers is calling for the creation of a global microbiota vault to protect the long-term health of humanity.
Teaching wild birds to sing a new tune
Like toddlers learning to speak, young birds learn to sing by listening to the voices of adults. Now, researchers have shown for the first...
Common genetic toolkit shapes horns in scarab beetles
Horns have evolved independently multiple times in scarab beetles, but distantly related species have made use of the same genetic toolkit to grow these...
Species-rich forests store twice as much carbon as monocultures
Species-rich subtropical forests can take up on average twice as much carbon as monocultures. An international research team has evaluated data from forests grown...
Windier wind farms
Depending on how wind turbines are situated relative to each other and to the prevailing wind, those not directly in the path of the...
Large-scale US wind power would cause warming that would take roughly a century to...
Extracting energy from the wind causes climatic impacts that are small compared to current projections of 21st century warming, but large compared to the...
New wristband provides personalised and real-time tracking of UV exposure
Researchers have developed personalized and low-cost wearable ultraviolet (UV) sensors that warn users when their exposure to the sun has become dangerous.
Seagrass meadows in Guam have decreased by 22 percent, new analysis shows
As the oceans warm and humans migrate to or grow in numbers in coastal areas of the world, scientists are increasingly keeping an eye...
Scientists develop a new way to remotely measure Earth’s magnetic field
By zapping a layer of meteor residue in the atmosphere with ground-based lasers, scientists are getting a new view of Earth's magnetic field.
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