Science
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Climate change could halve areas suitable for cattle, sheep and goat farming by 2100
A new study conducted at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that grassland-based grazing systems—currently covering a third of Earth'...
Nature's 'engine is grinding to a halt' as climate change gains pace, says study
Many ecologists hypothesize that, as global warming accelerates, change in nature must speed up. They assume that as temperatures rise and climatic zones shift,...
Deep-sea microbes get unexpected energy boost from marine snow, researchers discover
For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on very limited resources. But new resear...
African climate science policy has a serious blind spot: The slowing Atlantic circulation
The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularized the devastating effects of sudden climate change on Earth. The plot dramatizes t...
Microbiomes interconnect on a planetary scale, new study finds
In a new study published in Cell, scientists in the Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg reveal that microbes living in similar habitats are more alike than those simp...
Chemically edited molecular glue in action: How 12-deoxyfusicoccin locks a repressor
A novel study uncovers how a subtle chemical tweak transforms the naturally occurring phytotoxin into a powerful molecular glue, 12-deoxyfusicoccin (12-dFC), th...
Ultra-clean MXenes deliver 160-fold higher conductivity
An international team of researchers has developed a breakthrough method for producing MXenes—an important family of two-dimensional materials—with unprecedente...
Always sunny in Wrexham: Docuseries nets economic, social gains for city in Wales
When actors Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds bought a low-level Welsh soccer club in 2021, their goal was not just to save a sports team. In the FX docuseries "...
Stable high-energy pulses achieved with low-stress electro-optic switch
A research team led by Prof. Zhang Tianshu from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a low-stress electro-o...
Muon Knight shift reveals the behavior of superconducting electron pairs
Quantum materials and superconductors are difficult enough to understand on their own. Unconventional superconductors, which cannot be explained within the fram...
Satellite record shows boreal forests expanded 12% and shifted north since 1985
The boreal forest—the world's largest terrestrial biome—is warming faster than any other forest type. To understand the changing dynamics of boreal forests, Min...
How the spring thaw influences arsenic levels in lakes
From 1948 to 1953, a gold mine called Giant Mine released about 5 tons of arsenic trioxide per day into the environment around Yellowknife, Northwest Territorie...