Silver sawtooth creates valley-coherent light for nanophotonics

Scientists at the University of Groningen used a silver sawtooth nanoslit array to produce valley-coherent photoluminescence…

Scientists grow date palm plants from 2,000-year-old seeds

Methuselah, Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith and Hannah—all sat dormant in Judea since biblical times. Now…

Oligomers observed mimicking the combination of DNA strands

An international research team have for the first time observed dynamic covalent oligomers mimicking the combination…

UN assesses if Antarctica temperature reading is record high

The U.N. weather agency said Friday that an Argentine research base on the northern tip of…

Alaska's national forests contribute 48 million salmon a year to state's fishing industry

Alaska’s Tongass and Chugach National Forests, which contain some of the world’s largest remaining tracts of…

The power of going small: Copper oxide subnanoparticle catalysts prove most superior

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have shown that copper oxide particles on the sub-nanoscale are…

Scientists resurrected a Wrangel Island mammoth's mutated genes

Some 4,000 years ago, a tiny population of woolly mammoths died out on Wrangel Island, a…

Beef cattle genetics, management critical in fine tuning herds to fit environment

Matching cattle to the land available to graze and the nutrition it offers is critical in…

Biodiversity yields financial returns

Farmers could increase their revenues by increasing biodiversity on their land. This is the conclusion reached…

New research to help identify safe sites for nuclear waste storage

New insights into rates of bedrock erosion by glaciers around the world will help to identify…