Simulation model may reduce the climate footprint of oil production

Future offshore oil and gas fields are most likely to be “satellite developments” that are less…

Q&A: Landscape ecologist says California wildfires aren't a random situation

For the past several weeks, dozens of wildfires have scorched a destructive path across western forests…

Scientists capture candid snapshots of electrons harvesting light at the atomic scale

In the search for clean energy alternatives to fossil fuels, one promising solution relies on photoelectrochemical…

Using mobile technology to predict invasive species transmission

A cooler full of fish might not be the only thing anglers bring back from a…

Someday, even wet forests could burn due to climate change

Millions of years ago, fire swept across the planet, fueled by an oxygen-rich atmosphere in which…

Blueprint to more productive cattle herds

Genome technology has unlocked new cattle breeding methods which could improve fertility and lead to increases…

New detector breakthrough pushes boundaries of quantum computing

Physicists at Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Center of Finland have developed a new detector…

Greenland is on track to lose ice faster than in any century over 12,000 years: study

If human societies don’t sharply curb emissions of greenhouse gases, Greenland’s rate of ice loss this…

Researchers use amino acids to grow high-performance copper thin films

For the first time, researchers from Missouri S&T have shown that highly ordered copper thin films…

Gene expression altered by direction of forces acting on cell

Tissues and cells in the human body are subjected to a constant push and pull—strained by…