Graphene-based biosensors could usher in an era of liquid biopsy, detecting DNA cancer markers circulating in…
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Beyond your doorstep: What you buy and where you live shapes land-use footprint
In recent years, the attention of scientists and environmentalists has turned toward how population growth and…
Ancestor of all animals identified in Australian fossils
A team led by UC Riverside geologists has discovered the first ancestor on the family tree…
Skulls gone wild: How and why some frogs evolved extreme heads
Many frogs look like a water balloon with legs, but don’t be fooled. Beneath slick skin,…
Uncertainty about facts can be reported without damaging public trust in news: study
The numbers that drive headlines—those on Covid-19 infections, for example—contain significant levels of uncertainty: assumptions, limitations,…
Pablo Escobar's hippos may help counteract a legacy of extinctions
When cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was shot dead in 1993, the four hippos he brought to…
Researchers investigate how squid communicate in the dark
In the frigid waters 1,500 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of human-sized…
Can migration, workforce participation and education balance the cost of aging in Europe?
New IIASA research shows that higher levels of education and increasing workforce participation in both migrant…
New 3-D view of methane tracks sources
NASA’s new 3-dimensional portrait of methane concentrations shows the world’s second largest contributor to greenhouse warming,…
Peak district grasslands hold key to global plant diversity
Scientists at the University of Sheffield have found that plants are able to co-exist because they…