To intervene or not to intervene? That is the future climate question

Experts in climate science and ecology are bringing science to bear on the question and consequences…

Droughts longer, rainfall more erratic over the last 50 years in most of Western US

Dry periods between rainstorms have become longer and more erratic across the West during the past…

Beef industry can cut emissions with land management, production efficiency

An assessment of 12 different strategies for reducing beef production emissions worldwide found that industry can…

Aquatic biodiversity key to sustainable, nutrient-rich diets

New research shows aquatic species contain distinct and complementary sets of micronutrients — while animals offered…

Glass nanopore pulls DNA like spaghetti through a needle

Nanopore sensing can extract cell-free DNA from a liquid sample. Researchers used electric current to direct…

Rising Sika deer populations linked to bovine tuberculosis infections

New research suggests Ireland’s increasing populations of Sika deer may be linked to local outbreaks of…

New material for catholytes and anolytes in organic redox flow batteries

Researchers from Skoltech and their collaborators have designed, synthesized and evaluated new compounds that can serve…

Newly identified protein enables cells to sense surroundings and anchor in the right places

A combined team of researchers from the University of Geneva and the University of Tampere has…

A safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors

In recent years, scientists have developed many strains of engineered bacteria that can be used as…

Glass nanopore pulls DNA like spaghetti through a needle

DNA sequencing has become so common, few realize how hard it is to even extract a…