Crumpled graphene makes ultra-sensitive cancer DNA detector

Graphene-based biosensors could usher in an era of liquid biopsy, detecting DNA cancer markers circulating in…

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…