Gender inequality is ‘drowning out’ the voices of women scientists

A researcher is calling for the voices of women to be given a fairer platform at a leading scientific conference.

Collapse of the Atlantic Ocean heat transport might lead to hot European summers

Severe winters combined with heat waves and droughts during summer in Europe. Those were the consequences as the Atlantic Ocean heat transport nearly collapsed...

Artificial leaf as mini-factory for medicine

Using sunlight for sustainable and cheap production of, for example, medicines. The 'mini-factory' in the form of a leaf that chemical engineers developed in...

New take on early evolution of photosynthesis

Scientists have begun re-thinking the evolutionary history of photochemical reaction centers (RCs). Their analysis describes a new pathway that ancient organisms may have taken...

Climate change not the key driver of human conflict and displacement in East Africa

Over the last 50 years climate change has not been the key driver of the human displacement or conflict in East Africa, rather it...

Winter wave heights and extreme storms on the rise in Western Europe

Study reveals average winter wave heights along the Atlantic coast of Western Europe have been rising for almost seven decades.

Carbon capture could be a financial opportunity for US biofuels

With recent tax credits and other policies, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it underground is not only possible but profitable for...

Applying network analysis to natural history

By using network analysis to search for communities of marine life in the fossil records of the Paleobiology Database, biologists were able to quantify...

Did last ice age affect breastfeeding in Native Americans?

Biologists have been puzzled by the evolutionary adaptation behind a common tooth trait of northern Asians and Native Americans: shovel-shaped incisors. An analysis of...

Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence genomes of 1.5 million species

Scientists is proposing a massive project to sequence, catalog and analyze the genomes of all eukaryotic species on the planet, an undertaking the researchers...

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