New images reveal global air quality trends
The global concentrations of one of the main air pollutants known to affect human health has been graphically illustrated for the first time by a team of scientists. The Air …
Nanotech
S.Africa plan to ‘bomb’ mice that eat albatrosses alive
Albatrosses on a far-flung South African island are being eaten by mice. Conservationists said Saturday that they plan to bomb a remote South African island with tons of pesticide-laced pellets …
Yeast meiosis study finds temperature changes result in shorter meiotic chromosome axes and more crossovers
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a study of meiosis in budding yeast, a research team found that yeast senses temperature changes by increasing the level of DNA negative supercoils to …
Extreme rainfall event study demonstrates improved forecasting via physics-guided machine learning
(a) Actual precipitation; (b) ML fusion of multi-model precipitation; (c) ECMWF forecast precipitation; (d) CMA-SH9 forecast precipitation; (e) CMA-3KM forecast precipitation. The brown contour lines represents the terrain height. Credit: …
South Africa’s scarce water needs careful management—study finds smaller, local systems offer more benefits
In the Umzimvubu Catchment Partnership, communities work with non-profit organisations and academics to restore and protect natural springs so that people have clean drinking water. Credit: Environmental and Rural Solutions …
why the practice will not go away
A humpback whale off Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil in June 2024. The detention in Greenland of anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson pending possible extradition to Japan has turned the spotlight …
Experts meet as final global plastic treaty talks near
Negotiators hope to agree the world’s first binding treaty on plastic pollution this year. With months until crunch talks on the world’s first binding treaty on plastic pollution, experts are …
Nontoxic ceramic could replace lead-based electronic components
Longitudinal electrostriction strain coefficient of 10 mol% doped ceria ceramics as a function of dopant crystal radius. Credit: Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43032-5 The ceramic produced in Prof. Igor Lubomirsky’s lab …
What exactly are ‘forever chemicals’—and can we move beyond them?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The Australian parliament will conduct a national inquiry into the dangers of “forever chemicals.” The move comes after a string of revelations about the potential dangers …
The promise of synthetic cells
NIST researcher Elizabeth Strychalski’s research group is helping to establish the measurements and standards needed for progress in engineering biology, also known as synthetic biology. Credit: J. Stoughton/NIST For over …