Matheminecraft: Where math and Minecraft meet

Mathematician David Strütt, a scientific collaborator at EPFL, worked for four months to develop Matheminecraft, a…

Bioinsecticide-minded researchers prospect for purple-pigmented bacterium

The tidal marshes along the lower Potomac and James rivers in Maryland and Virginia support a…

Rising CO2 causes more than a climate crisis—it may directly harm our ability to think

As the 21st century progresses, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations will cause urban and indoor…

New ethane-munching microbes discovered at hot vents

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen have discovered a microbe that…

Geolocators give new insights into nesting behavior of godwits

To find out more about birds such as the black-tailed godwit, ecologists have been conducting long-term…

Digital Unified Global Geologic Map of the Moon

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute, has…

The Gulf Stream in Infrared

This image shows a small portion of the Gulf Stream off of South Carolina as it…

'Lucky' MESSENGER data upends long-held idea about Venus' atmosphere

Philosopher Nicholas Rescher once wrote, “Scientific discoveries are often made not on the basis of some…

'Collapsology': Is this the end of civilisation as we know it?

“The world will never be the same again,” has been the oft-repeated refrain since the coronavirus…

Lizards develop new 'love language': Animal chemical signals shift after only four generations

Relocated in small groups to experimental islands, lizards rapidly and repeatedly developed new chemical signals for…