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(Umea University) Scientists from Umeå University have now discovered and characterised the structure and function of a so far unknown Vibrio toxin. A team led...

Air quality is one of the major hot topics, receiving considerable attention from the public. Aside from emission sources, the prevailing meteorological conditions constitute another...

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...

Credit: Emily Mitchell Some of the earliest complex organisms on Earth - possibly some of the earliest animals to exist - got big not to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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....

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...

Credit: UC Davis, Davis, Calif. PHILADELPHIA - Simon R. Cherry, PhD, Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis, has been named the 2018 recipient...

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...