Science & Technology

A new meta-analysis across six continents establishes that large wild herbivores affect ecosystems in numerous important ways, from soils to vegetation to smaller animals, and… Read More

Volcanic carbon emissions reached an all-time low, triggering a global ice age that lasted for 57 million years. Australian geologists employed plate tectonic modeling to… Read More

The International Space Station (ISS) has returned to its standard configuration of seven Expedition 70 crew members conducting advanced microgravity research and orbital lab maintenance…. Read More

A team from the Institute for Future Materials and Systems at Nagoya University, Japan, has innovated a new “one-pot” technique for creating nanosheets using less… Read More

Two UCO research groups design a plasma (an ionized gas) reactor maintained by microwaves that makes it possible to decontaminate waters with high concentrations of… Read More

New study demonstrates that environmental changes can flip microbial predator-prey hierarchy. In a new study, two species of bacteria grown in a lab reversed their… Read More

Long Trail of Clumpy Stars Follows Galaxy Interactions When galaxies go bump in the night, they cook up new generations of stars that might otherwise… Read More

In the future, a little saliva may be enough to detect an incipient cancer. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed an effective way… Read More

Researchers at Osaka University uncover the mechanism by which cysteine activates a crucial regulator of cell growth in yeast. Amino acids serve as life’s fundamental… Read More

Nuclear physicists at Jefferson Lab have mapped the distribution of the strong force within the proton, employing a framework that links to gravity, opening a… Read More