California's epic rain year boosted groundwater levels, but not enough to recoup losses

California’s extraordinarily wet year brought the state vast quantities of water that have soaked into the…

The green shoots of urban agriculture

City farming and food sharing are blossoming in Europe with the help of local traditions and…

Global climate change, economic interests negatively impact amphibian diversity in Brazilian rainforest: Study

Senckenberg researchers, together with a Brazilian-German team, have investigated the effects of climate change on the…

Assessing greenhouse gas emissions in fertile drained peatland forests in Finland

The studies of the SOMPA project coordinated by the The Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) assessed…

Are pulsars the key to finding dark matter?

Ah, dark matter particles, what could you be? The answer still eludes us, and astronomers keep…

The conservation multiplier: How to convince a country not to chop down its rainforest

Bård Harstad tells his students that every environmental problem is, at its core, an inefficiency problem.…

Hypervelocity impact experiments probe the origin of organics on the dwarf planet Ceres

One of the most exciting findings from NASA’s Dawn mission is that Ceres, the largest object…

Researchers unlock the potential of genetic glycoengineering to advance vaccines and therapeutics technology

A novel glycoengineering platform, created by the laboratory of Assistant Professor Chris Lok-To Sham from the…

Nuclear astrophysical team confirms reaction path of rapid proton capture process

Type I X-ray bursts are the most frequent types of thermonuclear stellar explosions in the galaxy.…

Drug-delivery technique with vessel-targeted gold nanoparticles shows growing promise for brain cancer treatment

A technique developed by University of Texas at Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers to…