Methylation and mopping up

LMU researchers have discovered a novel type of chemical modification in bacterial RNAs. The modification is…

What makes wine dry? It's easy to taste, but much harder to measure

When you take a sip of wine at a family meal or celebration, what do you…

Researchers find new evidence that a fungus can be hard to find

A team of experts have discovered that a common fungus that infects humans can not only…

Secrets of orangutan language revealed

“Climb on me”, “climb on you” and “resume play” are among the requests wild orangutans make…

How to design a forest fit to heal the planet

Reforestation has enormous potential as a cheap and natural way of sucking heat-absorbing carbon dioxide out…

HydroAtlas maps Earth's river and catchment systems to enhance understanding and protection

Two friends from opposite ends of the Earth have created a world-first high spatial resolution atlas…

Study calls 200-year-old law about gas mixtures into question

According to a new study led by a team from The University of New Mexico, centuries-old…

Peatlands release more methane when disturbed by roads

Roads built through acidic wetlands may make greenhouse gas emissions from the wetlands spike by damming…

Breakthrough made in detecting carbon impurities in gallium nitride crystals via light

Carbon impurity has long hindered efficiency in nitride-based electronic and optical devices. But Researchers at Tohoku…

IRAS 18379–1707 is a metal-poor high-velocity star, observations find

Astronomers have conducted high-resolution spectroscopic observations of IRAS 18379–1707 (or LS 5112), a candidate post-asymptotic giant…