UN assesses if Antarctica temperature reading is record high

The U.N. weather agency said Friday that an Argentine research base on the northern tip of…

Alaska's national forests contribute 48 million salmon a year to state's fishing industry

Alaska’s Tongass and Chugach National Forests, which contain some of the world’s largest remaining tracts of…

The power of going small: Copper oxide subnanoparticle catalysts prove most superior

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have shown that copper oxide particles on the sub-nanoscale are…

Scientists resurrected a Wrangel Island mammoth's mutated genes

Some 4,000 years ago, a tiny population of woolly mammoths died out on Wrangel Island, a…

Beef cattle genetics, management critical in fine tuning herds to fit environment

Matching cattle to the land available to graze and the nutrition it offers is critical in…

Biodiversity yields financial returns

Farmers could increase their revenues by increasing biodiversity on their land. This is the conclusion reached…

New research to help identify safe sites for nuclear waste storage

New insights into rates of bedrock erosion by glaciers around the world will help to identify…

Statistical method allows the detection of higher order dependencies

In December, the academic publisher De Gruyter launched its new journal Open Statistics with an opening…

New multiplatform photon switch for application in quantum technology

An international team led by the Institute of Materials Science (ICMUV) of the University of Valencia…

Arctic ice melt is changing ocean currents

Using 12 years of satellite data, NASA scientists have measured how the influx of cold, fresh…