Palm oil plantations and deforestation in Guatemala: Certifying products as 'sustainable' is no panacea

Cheap, versatile and easy to grow, palm oil is the world’s most consumed vegetable oil and…

Give more people with learning disabilities the chance to work, historian argues

Employment levels for people with learning disabilities in the UK are five to 10 times lower…

Long and slow, or fast and furious: The clever way blue-green algae hedge their bets in blooms

Griffith researchers are helping shed new light on how blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria blooms can continue…

New 'super-Earth' orbiting M-dwarf star discovered

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new “super-Earth” exoplanet with NASA’s Transiting…

Researchers develop new method to study RNA-drug interactions

How active compounds affect RNA and thus the expression of genes is of great interest for…

A quantum radar that outperforms classical radar by 20%

Quantum technologies, a wide range of devices that operate by leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics,…

Biophysicists reveal how three proteins interact to fine-tune cellular movement

A single human cell teems with as many 100,000 different proteins. Actin is one of the…

New research sheds light on factors influencing trust and bias in societies

People with more positive perceptions of their nation’s institutions are more likely to show favoritism toward…

Ancient tooth suggests third kind of monkey made trip from Africa to South America millions of years ago

A team of paleontologists with members from France, Brazil and Argentina has found evidence of a…

Study finds European breeding birds respond only slowly to recent climate change

Over the last 30 years, European breeding birds have shifted their range by 2.4 km per…