Humpback whales may one day avoid Hawaiian waters due to climate change and rising greenhouse gasses,…
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Using native plants to filter a ubiquitous water contaminant
Every day, large quantities of human-generated synthetic chemicals enter Quebec’s wetlands and waterways, altering natural cycles. …
Ecosystems get increasingly thirsty due to climate change
A new study shows that future ecosystem functioning will increasingly depend on water availability. Using recent…
Archaeologists carry out first dig at tomb linked to King Arthur
Archaeologists from The University of Manchester have started a dig at a 5,000-year-old tomb linked to…
Here's what you need to know about the Varroa mite
Bee populations worldwide have been collapsing under attack from parasitic Varroa mites. Now, these mites have…
How land deformation occurs when fault sections creep
Strike-slip faults can be fickle about their movement—they can move slow and steady or remain stationary…
Eavesdropping on whales in the high Arctic
Whales are huge, but they live in an even larger environment—the world’s oceans. Researchers use a…
New telescope to detect gravitational wave events
A new telescope, made up of two identical arrays on opposite sides of the planet, will…
LHCb discovers three new exotic particles: the pentaquark and the first-ever pair of tetraquarks
The international LHCb collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has observed three never-before-seen particles: a…
Duminil-Copin, Fields-winning mathematician with 'aesthetic vision'
Hugo Duminil-Copin, a French mathematician whose visual approach helped him win the world’s most prestigious mathematics…