Seismic surveys have no significant impact on commercially valuable fish in NW Australia
Credit: Copyright AIMS, image credit Nick Thake New research has found marine seismic surveys used in oil and gas exploration are not impacting the abundance...
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The climate impact of wild pigs greater than a million cars
Credit: The University of Queensland By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs are releasing around 4.9 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide annually across...
RAS launches new multi-disciplinary journal
Credit: J. Tennyson The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is pleased to announce the launch of its first new journal in almost 100 years. Tentatively titled...
Team awarded $2M by NSF to teach virtual explorers about permafrost, Arctic climate change
Credit: Victor O. Leshyk, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University Scientists at Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University, the Arizona Geological Survey...
DNA duplication linked to the origin and evolution of pine trees and their relatives
Credit: Kristen Grace/Florida Museum of Natural History GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Plants are DNA hoarders. Adhering to the maxim of never throwing anything out that might...
RNA modification may protect against liver disease
May also explain liver fat differences among men & womenCredit: Sallam Lab/UCLA FINDINGS A chemical modification that occurs in some RNA molecules as they carry...
Cannabis: sexually diverse youths with depression use more
Credit: Université de Montréal It's no secret that studies show that sexually diverse youth - in particular, lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth - use...
Making clean hydrogen is hard, but researchers just solved a major hurdle
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin For decades, researchers around the world have searched for ways to use solar power...
A breath of fresh air for emphysema research
Credit: Department of Immune Regulation,TMDU Tokyo, Japan - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes illness and death worldwide. It is characterized by destruction of the...
Tail without a comet: the dusty remains of Comet ATLAS
Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / D. Jewitt (UCLA) A serendipitous flythrough of the tail of a disintegrated comet has offered scientists a unique...
Bats in Tel Aviv enjoy the rich variety and abundance of food the city has to offer
Just like humans:Credit: S. Greif. A new Tel Aviv University study found that, like humans, bats living in Tel Aviv enjoy the wide variety and...
Freeze drying, oral health experiments make speedy return from space station aboard SpaceX Dragon
A suite of International Space Station scientific experiments journey back to Earth aboard the 22nd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission for NASA.Credit: NASA A suite...
Renewable energy OK, but not too close to home
Credit: Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA When it comes to transitioning from carbon-based to renewable source energy systems, Americans are on board. They're less keen, however, having...
Firefighters found to have persistent lung damage from Fort McMurray wildfire
Risk of developing asthma is more than doubled, says University of Alberta occupational health researcher who used the same parameters as a study on 9-11...
New sunspot catalogue to improve space weather predictions
Credit: Kanzelhöhe Observatory, Austria Scientists from the University of Graz, Kanzelhöhe Observatory, Skoltech, and the World Data Center SILSO at the Royal Observatory of Belgium,...
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