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Mathematics of scale: Big, small and everything in between
Breathe. As your lungs expand, air fills 500 million tiny alveoli, each a fraction of a…
Automatic insect identification for better grasp on biodiversity
One hundred camera traps, developed specifically for the automatic counting and recognition of insects, will be…
What caused the fireballs that lit up the sky over Australia?
Over the past few days a pair of spectacular fireballs have graced Australia’s skies. …
Lake Tahoe's clarity improved dramatically over past year
The famed cobalt blue waters of Lake Tahoe became more clear last year, gaining 10 feet…
Signs of selection in the stomach
Helicobacter pylori, a globally distributed gastric bacterium, is genetically highly adaptable. Microbiologists at LMU have now…
Scientists investigate global spread of stinging jellyfish
“Get it off of me! Get it off of me!” shrieked Mary Carman, a marine ecologist…
As the dust of the election settles, Australia's wildlife still needs a pathway for recovery
The environment was a key concern in the recent federal election. It was also a polarising…
New catalogue of 12,000 X-ray spectral lines
X-ray sources in the sky radiate “bar codes” revealing their properties. These bar codes consist of…
Sending surplus food to charity is not the way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
With the recent news that Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the…