Outnumbered and on others’ turf, misfits sometimes thrive
Credit: Daniel Bolnick/U. of Texas at Austin It's hard being a misfit: say, a Yankees fan in a room full of Red Sox fans or...
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Restored ocean will alleviate poverty, provide jobs, and improve health, finds report
Credit: Lindsay Lafreniere A healthy ocean will benefit global sustainable development in a number of ways, finds a new report published today by the Nippon...
We’re on the brink of mass extinction — but there’s still time to pull back
Credit: Susan Barrott, UMinn Imagine being a scuba diver and leaving your oxygen tank behind you on a dive. Or a mountain climber and abandoning...
Bacteria may supercharge the future of wastewater treatment
Credit: Stephanie Precourt/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Wastewater treatment plants have a PR problem: People don't like to think about what happens to the waste they...
NASA sees formation of Tropical Depression Two-E in Eastern Pacific Ocean
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project The second tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific Ocean hurricane season formed near southwestern Mexico. NASA and NOAA satellites provided...
Russian scientists improved an X-ray fluorescence analysis algorithm
Scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have performed computations and derived new equations, allowing to conduct X-ray fluorescence analysis...
Cold conversion of food waste into renewable energy and fertilizer
Researchers from Concordia's Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE) in collaboration with Bio-Terre Systems Inc. are taking the fight against global warming to...
NASA sees Cyclone Mora still packing punch after landfall
Loading video... Credit: Credit: NASA JAXA, Hal Pierce Satellite data showed heavy rain and high cloud tops in Tropical Cyclone Mora after the storm came...
Human activity has polluted European air for 2,000 years, study finds
WASHINGTON, DC -- A new study combining European ice core data and historical records of the infamous Black Death pandemic of 1349-1353 shows metal mining...
Hitoshi Murayama named one of the 100 influencers in the world
Credit: Kavli IPMU Hitoshi Murayama has been named a Genius Contributor for a project celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Einstein's General Theory...
Looking at complex light wave forms
Credit: Graphics: Giuseppe Sansone For the first time an international research team under the direction of Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Sansone at the Institute of Physics...
Moffitt improves radiation therapy for head and neck patients
TAMPA, Fla. (May 31, 2017) - Radiation therapy is one of the most common treatments used to fight cancer, with an estimated 500,000 people each...
Giant ringed planet likely cause of mysterious eclipses
Credit: University of Warwick A giant gas planet - up to 50x the mass of Jupiter, encircled by a ring of dust - is likely...
Searching beyond graphene for new wonder materials
Graphene, the two-dimensional, ultra lightweight and super-strong carbon film, has been hailed as a wonder material since its discovery in 2004. Now researchers are going...
NASA’s Apollo-era test chamber now James Webb Space Telescope ready
Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA's "Chamber A," an enormous thermal vacuum testing chamber housed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, is now ready...
