Did the aurora borealis play a role in sinking the Titanic?

Independent weather researcher Mila Zinkova is raising the question of whether the aurora borealis played a…

Wildfires, logging affect fungi pine forests depend on for survival, studies show

Disturbances can hit Alberta’s lodgepole pine forests hard—including life under the soil, new University of Alberta…

'New' lactic acid bacteria can make African camel milk safe

A research project headed by the Technical University of Denmark, DTU, has come up with the…

Researchers claim long-term exposure to air pollution in China killed 30.8 million people between 2000 and 2016

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China and one in the U.S. has…

Cheap plastic is flooding developing countries, so we're making new biodegradable materials to help

Squeezed by lower fuel demand during the pandemic and the rise of renewable energy, the oil…

Water on exoplanet cloud tops could be found with hi-tech instrumentation

University of Warwick astronomers have shown that water vapor can potentially be detected in the atmospheres…

A new strategy to implement a high-fidelity mixed-species entangling gate

In recent years, research teams worldwide have been trying to create trapped ion quantum computers, which…

Researchers examine 'race unknown' enrollment data in higher education

When a college student self-identifies as “race unknown,” what does that mean in the context of…

Without oxygen, Earth's early microbes relied on arsenic to sustain life

Much of life on planet Earth today relies on oxygen to exist, but before oxygen was…

Antarctic krill take refuge from climate change

New research shows that Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), a key link in the Southern Ocean food…