Clean power is not enough
Credit: PIK/Luderer&Wodinski Coal power versus wind and solar energy - debates about the Paris climate targets often centre around electricity supply. Yet, even in a...
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Why life on Earth first got big
Credit: Emily Mitchell Some of the earliest complex organisms on Earth - possibly some of the earliest animals to exist - got big not to...
Enzyme boost could hasten production of biofuels and other bioprocessed materials
This could lead to cheaper and more environmentally friendly biofuel production and more efficient plastic recycling. Bioprocessing, which uses living cells or their components to...
New mechanism for the plant hormone auxin discovered
Credit: Matouš Glanc Auxin is a hormone that is essential for the development of plants as it controls a wide range of processes from shaping...
‘Electrogeochemistry’ captures carbon, produces fuel, offsets ocean acidification
Limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius will require not only reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, but also active removal of carbon dioxide from the...
Monarchs ride west coast winds: Proof of butterfly migration gathered
Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. - After five years and nearly 15,000 tagged butterflies, scientists now have proof that Monarch butterflies migrate from the Pacific Northwest...
Skeleton formation in young corals documented for first time in multidisciplinary study
The skeleton formed by a coral plays a key role in the storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Previous studies have focused on the process by...
New catalyst upgrades carbon dioxide to fuels found by USTC
Credit: ZHUANG Taotao Liquid multi-carbon alcohols such as ethanol and n-propanol are desired as renewable transportation fuels. They offer high energy densities, ease of long-range...
New wasps named after Crocodile Dundee and Toblerone amongst 17 new genera and 29 species
Credit: Jose Fernandez-Triana A total of 17 new genera and 29 new species of parasitoid wasps were identified following a study into the material deposited...
The UAB to gather worldwide experts on degrowth and environmental justice
The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) will become a global hub of degrowth and environmental justice theories....
Concern over low vitamin D intakes among UK South Asians
Public health strategies are urgently required to tackle low intakes of vitamin D in the UK South-Asian population, finds a new study in the journal...
Simon Cherry, Ph.D., receives SNMMI 2018 Paul C. Aebersold Award in Nuclear Medicine Science
Credit: UC Davis, Davis, Calif. PHILADELPHIA - Simon R. Cherry, PhD, Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis, has been named the 2018 recipient...
Richard L. Wahl, M.D., receives SNMMI 2018 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award
Credit: Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO Richard L. Wahl, MD, FACNM, FACR, has been named this year's recipient of the Georg...
Researchers work toward systematic assessment of climate models
Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences A research team based at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., has published the results of an international...
In the brain, dislike and dehumanization are not the same thing
During the past week, the news has brought us difficult images and sounds: Migrant and refugee children huddled in steel cages. Children and parents wailing...
