Plastic in the deep sea: Virtually unaltered after a quarter of a century

Plastic products are durable. On one hand this is a great advantage, but on the other…

Ohio State University soil professor gets World Food Prize

A soil scientist whose research led to improved food production and a better understanding of how…

Israeli scientists produce energy from plants

Israeli scientists say they have produced hydrogen from plants in a development that they hope could…

The disease pyramid: Environment, pathogen, individual and microbiome

Researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), the Université de Toulouse and…

Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate coordinated behaviors

For a nematode worm, a big lawn of the bacteria that it eats is a great…

Global air pollution maps now available

A new online platform that allows for the tracking of air pollution worldwide is now available…

Novel noncovalent bond blocks repulsive odor of isocyanides

Isocyanides are an important class of organic compounds owing to a wide range of chemical transformations…

Presence of devastating pest confirmed on Socotra Island

CABI scientist Dr. Arne Witt has led an international team of researchers who have confirmed for…

Tropical disease in medieval Europe revises the history of a pathogen related to syphilis

Mass burials are common remnants of the many plague outbreaks that ravaged Medieval Europe. A number…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/11/2020

Payloads  Electrolysis Measurement (EM): In support of the ongoing EM experiment, the crew performed a series…