Climate adaptation increases vulnerability of cocoa farmers, study shows

New research offers an alternative perspective on adaptation to climate threats in Southeast Asia. …

Study finds diversity of skin color and skin tone lacking in sex education textbooks

In recent years, attention to diversity of images in visual media—TV, movies, stock photos, children’s books…

Synthesizing past, present and potential future uses of plant specimens as functional trait data sources

A new review published in the International Journal of Plant Sciences combines disparate studies to synthesize…

The role of risk aversion in the coal contracting behavior of US power plants

A new paper published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists provides…

Study reveals how to break symmetry in colloidal crystals

Nature keeps a few secrets. While plenty of structures with low symmetry are found in nature,…

Two new species of freshwater goby fish discovered in the Philippines

A team of biologists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in…

Martian meteorite's organic materials origin not biological, formed by geochemical interactions between water and rock

Organic molecules found in a meteorite that hurtled to Earth from Mars were synthesized during interactions…

Lost birds and mammals spell doom for some plants

In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers have gauged how biodiversity loss of…

Tuning the bonds of paired quantum particles to create dissipationless flow

Electrons flowing through power lines and computers inevitably encounter resistance; when they do, they lose some…

Plants: RNA notes to self

How does a developing plant shoot know how, where, and when to grow? Dividing cells need…