$2.5M fund available for climate change adaptation projects
Credit: Dean Fikar Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-supported Climate Adaptation Fund will provide up to $2.5 million for projects in and around wild landscapes and urban...
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Sponge bacterium found to encapsulate arsenic drawn from environment
Arsenic is the leading freshwater contaminant on the planet, affecting millions of people worldwide and causing an untold number of deaths every year. Removing arsenic...
First evidence of rocky planet formation in Tatooine system
Evidence of planetary debris surrounding a double sun, 'Tatooine-like' system has been found for the first time by a UCL-led team of researchers. Published today...
Study opens new questions on how the atmosphere and oceans formed
Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found seawater cycles throughout the Earth's interior down to 2,900km,...
Effects of genes often influenced by network
When many genes regulate a single trait, they commonly work together in large clusters or 'networks'. Taking this into account allows better predictions of how...
How donut-shaped fusion plasmas managed to decrease adverse turbulence
Fusion research has been dominated by the search for a suitable way of ensuring confinement as part of the research into using fusion to generate...
How protein misfolding may kickstart chemical evolution
Alzheimer's disease, and other neurodegenerative conditions involving abnormal folding of proteins, may help explain the emergence of life -- and how to create it. Researchers...
Bioinspired process makes materials light, robust, programmable at nano- to macro-scale
Credit: Silk Lab / Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (February 27, 2017, 11 a.m. EST) -- Researchers at Tufts University's School of Engineering have developed a...
What’s really in the water
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/Ric Evans PITTSBURGH (February 27, 2017) ... U.S. beaches and waterways are often closed to human contact when tests indicate an...
Coming soon: Oil spill-mapping swarms of flying drones
Loading video... Credit: University at Buffalo. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Thousands of ants converge to follow the most direct path from their colony to their food...
It may not have been too late to save ‘extinct’ pigeon
The Passenger Pigeon, a species of pigeon that died out in the early years of the 20th century, could have been saved even after it...
Smart multi-layered magnetic material acts as an electric switch
The nanometric-size islands of magnetic metal sporadically spread between vacuum gaps display unique conductive properties under a magnetic field. In a recent study published in...
Stanford scientists develop new tool to reduce risk of triggering manmade earthquakes
Credit: Courtesy Rall Walsh A new, freely available software tool developed by Stanford scientists will enable energy companies and regulatory agencies to calculate the probability...
Investigating star formation is UMass Amherst researcher’s mission
Credit: UMass Amherst/ Robert Gutermuth AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Amherst astrophysicist Stella Offner, who has received a five-year, $429,000 faculty early career development...
New technology offers fast peptide synthesis
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Manufacturing small proteins known as peptides is usually very time-consuming, which has slowed development of new peptide...
