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Credit: NIBB Increases in seawater temperature can cause coral bleaching through the loss of symbiotic algae. Corals can recover from bleaching by recruiting algae into...

Potential new tool for frost screening in crops

Credit: University of Adelaide Agricultural scientists and engineers at the University of Adelaide have identified a potential new tool for screening cereal crops for frost...

New research on cataract surgery in order to improve health care

Credit: Photo by Anna-Maria Timbus In general, surgeons who perform numerous cataract operations every year encounter relatively few severe cases, and this probably contributes to...

Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene

Researchers harnessed the atomic motion of graphene to generate an electrical current that could lead to a chip to replace batteries.Credit: Russell Cothren, University of...

Searching for the chemistry of life

Study shows possible new way to create DNA base pairsCredit: Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Tomislav Stolar In the search for the chemical origins of life, researchers...

Fuelling the energy revolution

A chemist at Paderborn University is researching green hydrogen for sustainable transport - dovetailing fundamental research and application technologiesCredit: Paderborn University, Besim Mazhiqi Airbus wants...

Woodpeckers’ drumming: Conserved meaning despite different structure over the years

Credit: (Picture: Alain Blanc, ENES team) Animal acoustic signals are amazingly diverse. Researchers from the University of Zurich and the University of Saint-Etienne, together with...

Face masks unlikely to cause over-exposure to CO2, even in patients with lung disease

Credit: ATS New research findings contradict statements linking wearing face masks to carbon dioxide poisoning by trapping CO2. During the COVID-19 pandemic the wearing of...

Vaccine ingredients could be hiding in small molecule libraries

Scientists have found an ingredient that makes a vaccine more effective through an approach more often seen in materials science - testing molecules that self-assemble...

Laundry lint can cause significant tissue damage within marine mussels

Credit: University of Plymouth Microscopic fibres created during the laundry cycle can cause damage to the gills, liver and DNA of marine species, according to...

Invasion by non-native insects expected to increase 36 percent worldwide by 2050

Europe in line for greatest biological invasion, followed by Asia and the AmericasCredit: Leah Bauer, USDA Forest Service Research by an international team of scientists...

Bright light bars big-eyed birds from human-altered landscapes

Credit: Ian Ausprey/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- New research shows the glaring light in human-altered landscapes, such as livestock pastures and crop fields, can act...

Penn Medicine researchers discover a rare genetic form of dementia

Credit: Edward Lee PHILADELPHIA -- A new, rare genetic form of dementia has been discovered by a team of Penn Medicine researchers. This discovery also...

Tool helps clear biases from computer vision

Credit: Princeton Visual AI Lab Researchers at Princeton University have developed a tool that flags potential biases in sets of images used to train artificial...

Vaccine opposition online uniting around ‘civil liberties’ argument