Elephant poaching rates in Africa have started to decline after reaching a peak in 2011, an…
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Save the bees (and time and money) by creating a bee lawn
Flowering “bee lawns” that attract pollinators are a compromise between fastidious turf management and the more…
Fighting academic failures
Children from undereducated, low-income families face a greater risk of poor academic performance. But schools are…
Chandra finds stellar duos banished from galaxies
Scientists have found evidence that pairs of stars have been kicked out of their host galaxies.…
Study highlights vulnerability of rural coast to sea-level rise
Type “sea-level rise” in an internet search engine and almost all the resulting images will show…
Direct methane conversion under mild conditions by thermo-, electro- or photocatalysis reviewed
Direct conversion of Earth-abundant methane into value-added chemicals under mild conditions is an attractive technology in…
Plainification holds promise for improving material sustainability
Extensive alloying makes material development more dependent on scarce resources. Alloyed materials with complicated compositions are…
Centuries-old drawings lead to better understanding of fan-shaped auroras
Physics researchers and literature researchers have joined together to better understand the rare natural phenomenon of…
Imperfection is OK for better MOFs
Perfect crystals are not necessarily the most useful. Defects in the ordered crystalline structure of metal-organic…
How small can they get? Polymers may be the key to single-molecule electronic devices
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and University of Tsukuba demonstrate that polymers could play a…