Heat, cold, pollution, noise and insects: Too many apartment blocks aren't up to the challenge

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the impacts of air quality on high-rise living. However, apartments face a…

Poison dart frogs: Personality determines reproductive strategies, research suggests

Unlike their relatives, individuals of the poison frog Allobates femoralis are not poisonous but are captivating…

Turkana stone beads tell a story of herder life in a drying east Africa 5,000 years ago

On the shores of Lake Turkana in east Africa, about 5,000 to 4,000 years ago, pastoralists…

Webb and Hubble combine to create most colorful view of universe

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have united to study an expansive galaxy…

Plastics treaty must tackle problem at source, researchers say

The new Global Plastics Treaty must tackle the problem at the source, researchers say. An international…

Researchers develop light-activated protein superglue for fast and precise control of cells and tissues

Researchers at Tampere University have been involved in an international study to develop new tools for…

Deep-sea pressure found to preserve food for microbes in the abyss

A new study from the Danish Center for Hadal Research reports on a series of experiments…

Study finds Greenland's glacier retreat rate has doubled over past two decades

Greenland’s thousands of peripheral glaciers have entered a new and widespread state of rapid retreat, a…

Liquid metals shake up century-old chemical engineering processes

Liquid metals could be the long-awaited solution to “greening” the chemical industry, according to researchers who…

Zooplankton in ocean and freshwater are rapidly escalating the global environmental threat of plastics, finds study

A collaborative research team lead by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently revealed that rotifers,…