Gauging the effects of water scarcity on an irrigated planet

Growing global food demand, climate change, and climate policies favoring bioenergy production are expected to increase…

Will rising carbon dioxide levels really boost plant growth?

Plants have become an unlikely subject of political debate. Many projections suggest that burning fossil fuels…

Small Unmanned Aircraft Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Initial Assessment

Abstract: With many applications envisioned for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), and potentially millions of sUAS…

Aerosol-Radiation-Cloud Interactions in the South-East Atlantic: Model-Relevant Observations and the Beneficiary Modeling Efforts in the Realm of the EVS-2 Project ORACLES

Abstract: Globally, aerosols remain a major contributor to uncertainties in assessments of anthropogenically-induced changes to the…

Researchers find polyploidy has occurred many times during the evolution of insects

University of Arizona biology researchers have made a discovery that helps resolve a conundrum that has…

Scientists discover gene controlling genetic recombination rates

Genetics is a crapshoot. During sexual reproduction, genes from both the mother and the father mix…

NASA engineers dream big with small spacecraft

Many of NASA's most iconic spacecraft towered over the engineers who built them: think Voyagers 1…

Unveiling the secrets of the Milky Way galaxy

A multinational team of astronomers involving the University of Adelaide has catalogued over 70 sources of…

BASALT A: Basaltic Terrains in Idaho and Hawaii as Planetary Analogs for Mars Geology and Astrobiology

Abstract: Assessments of field research target regions are described within two notably basaltic geologic provinces as…

Researchers build DNA replication in a model synthetic cell

Researchers at Delft University of Technology, in collaboration with colleagues at the Autonomous University of Madrid,…