Primer on carbon dioxide removal provides vital resource at critical time

Scientists say that any serious plan to address climate change should include carbon dioxide removal (CDR)…

A new way to look for gravitational waves

In a paper published today in Physical Review Letters, Valerie Domcke of CERN and Camilo Garcia-Cely…

Mutant roots reveal how we can grow crops in damaged soils

For years, conventional wisdom has held that roots don’t grow as deep in hard soil because…

New data on the Quaternary ecosystems in the central Iberian Peninsula

Adrián Pablos and Nohemi Sala, researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana…

Ocean acidification locks algal communities in a simplified state

Out with the old, in with the new, as the New Year’s saying goes, but not…

Simulating evolution to understand a hidden switch

Computer simulations of cells evolving over tens of thousands of generations reveal why some organisms retain…

New mangrove forest mapping tool puts conservation in reach of coastal communities

Mangroves are salt-tolerant plants found in intertidal areas throughout much of the world’s tropical and subtropical…

Four tips for learning language through film and TV

Films and TV shows can be great tools to help you become a more competent speaker…

Why future homes could be made of living fungus

In the summer of 2014 a strange building began to take shape just outside MoMA PS1,…

A new regime for analyzing properties of topological materials

Two recent studies demonstrate that there is a topological origin of two related metal alloys’ ability…