How the Earth got its moon is a long debated question. The giant impact theory –…
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Does lack of paid sick time make US susceptible to global health crisis?
Robert Bruno is a professor of labor and employment relations at the Urbana campus of the…
Hot time in the city: Urban lizards evolve heat tolerance
Faced with a gritty landscape of metal fences, concrete walls and asphalt pavement, city lizards in…
Introducing the light-operated hard drives of tomorrow
What do you get when you place a thin film of perovkite material used in solar…
Image: The foam-coarsening experiment aboard the ISS
Another fluid experiment joins long running research on foam stability on the International Space Station. The…
Cryo-EM reveals unexpected diversity of photosystems
Annemarie Perez Boerema from Alexey Amunts lab has reconstructed the atomic models of new forms of…
Fresh groundwater flow important for coastal ecosystems
Groundwater is the largest source of freshwater, one of the world’s most precious natural resources and…
How awareness about the need for climate change mitigation could be turned into action
Awareness of climate change and its impacts is not enough to move people to action. New…
Why do banking crises occur?
Why did the U.S. banking crisis of 2007-2008 occur? Many accounts have chronicled the bad decisions…
From darkness to light: New findings unravel how plants control energy generation
Researchers at Western Sydney University and The Australian National University have discovered new chemical communication pathways…