Viruses as modulators of interactions in marine ecosystems

The Oceans not only host large predators such as sharks or orcas. Even in the realm…

Music is essential for the transmission of ethnobiological knowledge

Music has been a long-standing focus of scientific inquiry. For instance, since the 1850s, the evolutionary…

Researchers observe exotic radioactive decay process

Researchers from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University (MSU) and TRIUMF (Canada’s…

Predicting a hurricane's intensity can prove difficult

Rapid intensification is a serious challenge for the prediction of hurricane intensity. An example is Hurricane…

Thousands of meltwater lakes mapped on the east Antarctic ice sheet

The number of meltwater lakes on the surface of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is more…

New washing machine filter breaks down plastic microfibres

Plastic microfibres that come off clothes in washing machines can be degraded and dissolved by a…

Can citric acid be a green alternative to protecting steel?

Nitric acid is currently the most widely used passivating solution to protect stainless steel from corrosion…

Fly your experiment to the space station with Bioreactor Express Service

ESA is partnering with Kayser Italia to offer the Kubik facility on the International Space Station…

Machine learning opens new possibilities for quantum devices

Scientists from the University of Oxford, in collaboration with University of Basel and Lancaster University, have…

The EPA disbanded this panel of clean-air experts – they're meeting again anyway

In 2015, a panel of experts was convened to help advise the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…