Planting forests is one way to mitigate climate change. The origin of seeds is crucial to…
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Yellowstone flooding underscores environmental pressures facing US national parks
America’s national parks are in crisis, and the environmental disaster unfolding at Yellowstone National Park is…
Relationship between silver nanowire film plasticity and shear fracture resistance
A research team led by Ji Shulin from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the…
Decriminalizing hard drugs in British Columbia follows decades of public health advocacy
British Columbia has become the first province to be granted an exemption under the Controlled Drugs…
Scientists develop synergistic antibacterial carbon dots
The use of antibiotics helps fight bacterial infection, but the abuse of antibiotics has resulted in…
New exfoliation technique 'recovers' biomaterial's piezoelectricity
Piezoelectric materials are applicable in the biomedical field, and if they can be biocompatible and degradable,…
Gut microbiota of wild Assamese macaques become more unique with age
The bacteria in the gut are crucial for our health. They contribute to the development of…
The Amazon rainforest is disappearing quickly and threatening Indigenous people who live there
Forests throughout the world are shrinking year after year—and Brazil is the epicenter. According to the…
A massive galaxy supercluster in the early universe
The structure of the universe is often described as being a cosmic web of filaments, nodes,…
Physicists shine light on solid way to extend excitons' life
Optics researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have shown for the first time that…