Even on Facebook, COVID-19 polarized members of US Congress: study

Facebook posts by members of the U.S. Congress reveal the depth of the partisan divide over…

New study puts disparities of climate change on the map

New research, led by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, illustrates the disparity between the narrow origins and…

Oldest fossils of methane-cycling microbes expand frontiers of habitability on early Earth

A team of international researchers, led by the University of Bologna, has discovered the fossilized remains…

Warming, deforestation turn Amazon into source of carbon dioxide

Climate change and deforestation have flipped a large swathe of the Amazon basin from absorbing to…

Small molecule plays outsize role in controlling nanoparticle

Ligands are much like nanosized barnacles, binding to many kinds of surfaces. This form of adsorption…

A new sensitive tool for the efficient quantification of plant disease susceptibility

While several biology techniques have undergone significant technical advances that have allowed their high-throughput implementation, assessing…

Old-school data suggests hurricanes in the Atlantic are not more frequent than in the past

Researchers affiliated with several institutions in the United States has determined that the increase in the…

How human trash in Australian bird nests changed over 195 years

When we opened a box supplied by museum curators, our research team audibly gasped. Inside was…

Genome studies do not always reveal useful information with larger sample sizes

What the fruit fly is to zoologists, the thale cress is to botanists. The widespread herb…

Sweet spot for membrane thickness offers sustainable separations

Super-thin carbon molecular sieve (CMS) membranes may not be best for separating industrially important chemical mixtures.…