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Credit: Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy Just when lighting aficionados were in a dark place, LEDs came to the rescue. Over the past decade, LED technologies --...

Credit: Julia Fine, Penn State A chemical that is thought to be safe and is, therefore, widely used on crops -- such as almonds, wine...

Credit: L.A. Cicero In a lab 18 feet below the Engineering Quad of Stanford University, researchers in the Dionne lab camped out with one of the...

Credit: Steve Hinchliffe Mass livestock production is driving molecular changes in diseases that could lead to human pandemics, according to an expert from the University...

A team of Chinese scientists announced on Jan. 15 that they have developed a new bright VUV FEL light source, the Dalian Coherent Light Source...

Credit: United Nations University The volume of discarded electronics in East and Southeast Asia jumped almost two-thirds between 2010 and 2015, and e-waste generation is...

Credit: Francois Teste Rainforests on infertile wet soils support more than half of all plant species. Shrublands on infertile dry soils in southwestern Australia, jokingly...

Credit: © Ashwin Ravikumar, The Field Museum. The world's forests are crucial to slowing climate change, but they're often destroyed to make room for farms,...

Credit: Photo: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU Jena Jena (Germany) Wolffia globosa, a tiny, rootless duckweed, or water lens, apparently has what it takes to achieve great things....

(John Innes Centre) A new five-year project BBSRC Brassica, Rapeseed and Vegetable Optimisation (BRAVO), will receive funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council....

Credit: Pixabay Entering a 'wheat pan-genomics' era from single to multiple wheat DNA references, the Earlham Institute (EI) aims to diversify one of the world's...

Credit: colorbox Forests are potent carbon sinks, but also the oceans' seagrasses can store enormous amounts of carbon. A little bay in Denmark stores a...

Conservation and logging groups in Central and West Africa are failing to fully incorporate local concerns into management, marginalizing the livelihoods of the local population,...

Credit: Etienne Laliberté MONTREAL, Jan. 12, 2017 - Some of the Earth's ecosystems host a disproportionately high number of plant species, and infertile shrublands in...

Credit: Elena Zhukova for UCOP UC Santa Barbara marine biologist and conservation ecologist Benjamin Halpern is among 10 recipients of a 2017 Peter Benchley Ocean...