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Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the mid-late Holocene (around...
Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors wishing to offset their i...
The electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional materials both have strong potential for technological applications. Researchers have long a...
Researchers in the US have demonstrated how quantum entanglement could be used to detect optical signals from astronomical sources at the single-photo...
The Doomsday Clock—a symbolic device to signal an array of existential threats to the world since 1947—was recently moved to 85 seconds before midnigh...
At some point, most people have found themselves holding a tilted carton of milk or bottle of cooking oil, patiently waiting for the last drops to dri...
Europe is struggling more and more with extreme heat in the summer. While climate change is the main reason for this increase, what specific physical...
A Purdue University contraceptive vaccine seeks to address animal overpopulation by markedly reducing fertility in feral horses, deer, swine and other...
Long-term ecosystem warming changes not only plants but the fungi in the soil below, according to a new study including researchers from the Universit...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way scientists discover and design new materials. In a specially invited review published in Angewand...
Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets we've found so far—which i...
A new study from the University of Helsinki reveals how plant mitochondria draw molecular oxygen away from chloroplasts, an interaction not previously...
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