It’s mission over for a robot called Fedor that Russia blasted to the International Space Station,…
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Ocean warming is changing the relationship coastal communities have with the ocean
Climate change has made record-breaking heatwaves all the more likely, both on land and beneath the…
New research confirms 'megafires' not increasing: Large, high-severity fires are natural in western U.S. forests
A peer-reviewed study by leading experts of forest and fire ecology recently published in the science…
Mako shark tracking off west coast reveals 'impressive' memory and navigation
The largest effort ever to tag and track shortfin mako sharks off the West Coast has…
Cable bacteria: Living electrical wires with record conductivity
A team of scientists from the University of Antwerp (Belgium), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and…
Determination of the crystal structure of a DNA-stabilized silver nanocluster
Nanoclusters are little “heaps” of a few atoms that often have interesting optical properties and could…
Weka: Sandwich-stealing scallywags or ecosystem managers?
Weka are often portrayed as little more than sandwich-stealing scallywags. The large, brown flightless bird’s tendency…
Mineral never before found naturally on Earth discovered in meteorite
A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology, the University of California and Maine…
Multiple stellar populations found in the cluster NGC 1866
Astronomers have performed a comprehensive study of stellar populations in the young globular cluster NGC 1866.…
Why do astronomers believe in dark matter?
Dark matter, by its very nature, is unseen. We cannot observe it with telescopes, and nor…