The landscape of Tasmania has been shaped by thousands of years of Aboriginal burning practices, researchers…
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Fifty years after Apollo 11 astronauts deployed the first seismometer on the surface of the moon,…
South Africa's carbon tax matters for the economy and tackling climate change
Carbon tax is likely to be an effective way of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, which lead…
Angelic halo orbit chosen for humankind's first lunar outpost
Mission planners at NASA and ESA’s Operations Centre (ESOC) have spent months debating the pros and…
Researcher uses canola to create biodegradable cling wrap
A University of Alberta researcher has found a new use for a canola byproduct, providing potential…
Betting on speculative geoengineering may risk an escalating 'climate debt crisis'
The opening of the Oscar-winning film The Big Short, a comedy-drama on the global financial crisis…
Theory that ridged skin helps dolphins debunked
A dolphin is obviously not a golf ball. However, many scientists believed that the way one…
Study unveils a new supersolid phase in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates
Generally, matter exists in three distinct forms: as a solid, a liquid or a gas. Past…
Peanut plant's 'chemical breath' could give clues to drought and other stresses
Peanut growers could someday identify emerging threats such as drought, pests or disease by testing a…
Study finds small mammals aid expansion of warm-climate trees
A new study by Alessio Mortelliti, an assistant professor of wildlife habitat ecology at the University…