Science
Scientific discoveries and research
First 15 days of egg development may determine survival for California's most endangered salmon
Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon are California's most endangered salmon, with a single surviving population and an average of a few thousand returnin...
Autonomous ship operators' liability remains unclear during oil spills
If a remotely operated oil tanker causes a spill, the shipowner remains responsible for compensating victims under existing international rules. But another que...
Shipwrecks from WWI and WWII are polluting the North Sea
In April 1917, the German submarine UC-30 sailed beneath the waves off the coast of Rømø. It had originally been on a mission in Ireland, but after suffering en...
Patience predicts longer education paths and faster earnings growth, real-money experiment finds
Some teenagers are happy to wait for a bigger reward tomorrow rather than cash in today. Others would rather take the sure thing now—or gamble on a risky, high-...
LHC collisions reveal oxygen and neon's shifting nuclear geometry
Many people are aware that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN smashes tiny subatomic particles together at nearly the speed of light to test foundational l...
Twenty years and 7,500 fossils reveal what blurs Earth's marine fossil record
In productive marine environments, a square meter (10.8 square feet) of seafloor can be perforated by hundreds to thousands of isolated and interconnected tunne...
The framing of nature changes how kids respond to environmental education
How to teach children to care about the environment? Beyond including climate change and biodiversity in the curriculum, researchers argue that environmental et...
Scientists uncover environmental cues behind black bear hibernation
New research from Virginia Tech scientists in the College of Natural Resources and Environment provides fresh insight into how environmental conditions influenc...
Stellar eruptions in the laboratory: First experimental evidence for their suppression in strong magnetic fields
An international team of astrophysicists and plasma physicists has provided the first experimental evidence that strong magnetic fields surrounding active stars...
Young people who pass through youth justice die at six times the rate of their peers
Conversations about the youth justice system typically focus on crime and punishment. In Australia, this has fueled increasingly populist and punitive youth jus...
Mapping Indonesian seagrass quality to target blue carbon conservation
Not all of Indonesia's seagrass meadows are faring alike. A study has revealed substantial spatial differences in the condition of 21 seagrass meadows across ce...
Shark DNA could hold answers to how we age
Age isn't just a number for one of the ocean's top apex predators. It's a mystery University of Georgia researchers are solving. A new UGA study has determined...