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BU researchers used NASA satellite imaging data to analyze 30 years of Earth's northern forests and found that fires are...

Researchers find first-ever galaxy observed in a 'blow-away' stateCredit: Credit: Podevin, J.f., 2006 A new study led by University of...

Researchers navigate advantages and disadvantagesCredit: Vladimir Stegailov Researchers from the HSE International Laboratory for Supercomputer Atomistic Modelling and Multi-scale Analysis,...

Martin J. Blaser, MD, recognized for career-long focus on the microbiome's effect on human healthCredit: Roy Groething Martin J. Blaser,...

Uranium-series dating shows South African midden is world's oldestCredit: Image courtesy of E. Niespolo. Archeologists have learned a lot about...

Credit: Xiangming Xiao An international team led by Xiangming Xiao, George Lynn Cross Research Professor in the Department of Microbiology...

Credit: Photo by Ashlyn Rairdin and courtesy of Soumik Sarkar/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - A gardener hoping for a...

University of Cincinnati researchers find some water bottles thought to be safe actually have transient BPA releaseCredit: University of Cincinnati...

Credit: Francesco Righetti Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered a mechanism through which meningitis-causing bacteria can evade our...

Hydrogen in hybrid perovskites: Researchers identify the defect that limits solar-cell performanceCredit: Xie Zhang Researchers in the materials department in...

Tiny pugilists give scientists a clear view of their lock and spring elbowsCredit: Jacob Harrison - Duke University DURHAM, N.C....

Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a rare look at a...

Credit: © 2021 KAUST The genome of single-celled plankton, known as dinoflagellates, is organized in an incredibly strange and unusual...

Novel method could also be applied to screen for crucial genes in other biological processesCredit: Keatinge M et al., 2021,...

Museum collections reveal the history of micCredit: Loren Hou Forget diamonds--plastic is forever. It takes decades, or even centuries, for...

Credit: British Ecological Society Today the British Ecological Society (BES) has announced the winners of its journal prizes for research...

Credit: Sean Nealon, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Land productivity could be greatly increased by combining sheep grazing and...

Credit: Heriot-Watt University Exploring extreme environments can put significant operational challenges on the engineering systems we depend upon to safely...

An ancient immune response regulates the development of beneficial symbiosesCredit: Natascha Bechtoldt Microalgae of the dinoflagellate group are known for...

Mapping the 'chromatinome': New integrative functional genomics platform for profiling genome regulation with a massively-parallel screen of chromatin modifiersCredit: Sanjana...