Elephant seals drift off to sleep while diving far below the ocean surface

For the first time, scientists have recorded brain activity in a free-ranging, wild marine mammal, revealing…

The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can't be approached as two separate things

Anthropogenic climate change has, together with the intensive use and destruction of natural ecosystems through agriculture,…

Using solar farms to generate fresh desert soil crust

Biocrusts play a crucial role in maintaining soil health and ecosystem sustainability, but they are currently…

Greenhouse gas release from permafrost is influenced by mineral binding processes

New insights into the binding of carbon to mineral particles in permafrost can improve the prediction…

Fungal genetics could help develop novel biotechnologies

An essential pillar of Earth’s ecological system, fungi have long been used to better the lives…

Biologists discover bees to be brew masters of the insect world

Scientists have made a remarkable discovery about cellophane bees — their microbiomes are some of the…

Wearable patch can painlessly deliver drugs through the skin

A wearable patch applies painless ultrasonic waves to the skin, creating tiny channels that drugs can…

Cannabinoids give worms the munchies, too

Marijuana (cannabis) is well known for giving people the ‘munchies.’ Not only does it make people…

AI system can generate novel proteins that meet structural design targets

A new machine-learning system can generate protein designs with certain structural features, and which do not…

Engineering the next generation of cell and gene therapies

Investigators are developing a novel way to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and retinitis pigmentosa using…