A new study has found that a highly antibiotic-resistant strain of the superbug MRSA—methicillin resistant Staphylococcus…
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How climate change is affecting extreme weather events around the world: new study
Attribution science has led to major advances in linking the impacts of extreme weather and human-induced…
UN meet sees blitz of pledges to protect ailing oceans
A major UN conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicked off…
Infant burials in Mexico: Aztec customs lasted post-Conquest
Four children in Mexico were buried in the years after the Spanish Conquest with rituals and…
Hate sites are using the wider abortion argument to spread racism and extremism
White supremacists are using the debate around women’s reproductive rights to promote racist and extremist agendas,…
Microbe protects honey bees from poor nutrition, a significant cause of colony loss
Indiana University researchers have identified a specific bacterial microbe that, when fed to honey bee larvae,…
Single-atom tractor beams power chemical catalysis
By trapping light into tiny gaps only a few atoms wide, a team from the NanoPhotonics…
In non-volatile memory technologies, 2D materials may drive a major leap forward
Non-volatile memories—which are able to retain information even when power is removed—are largely employed in computers,…
Novel gel proves itself to be a highly tunable color filter
Color these scientists happy. An exotic gel they studied at the National Institute of Standards and…
Curiosity rover takes inventory of key life ingredient on Mars
Scientists using data from NASA’s Curiosity rover have measured the total organic carbon—a key component in…