Credit: Purdue Universtiy/Erin Easterling WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Super-resilient materials found in the animal kingdom owe their strength and toughness to a design strategy that...
(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...
