Science
Scientific discoveries and research
Flowers have a 'biological clock' that times blooming and scent to match insects
Morning-blooming morning glories and flowers that release fragrance at night seem as if they know the time. A KAIST research team has uncovered, at the molecula...
Unraveling active magma by drilling in the heart of volcanoes
Although volcanic eruptions are spectacular natural events that occur around the world every day, most volcanoes spend the majority of their time not erupting....
The northern lights' dark twin is a wild card for the power grid
Scientists are working to understand how magnetic currents from the sun spread beneath Earth's crust when the northern lights dance across the sky. Their goal i...
Why student samples can mislead: Higher education may shift values toward Western norms
A new study published in Nature Communications finds that worldwide, people with higher levels of education are more culturally similar to those in Canada, the...
Piezoelectric materials enable a new approach to searching for axions
Dark matter, a type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, is predicted to account for most of the matter in the universe. As it eludes common e...
Japan's giant caldera volcano is refilling 7,300 years later
The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to under...
From simulation to strategy: Climate modeling motivates action at the top
New research by MIT Sloan School of Management finds that global leaders who participate in facilitated engagements using an interactive climate policy simulato...
Study in search of a tropical spring is first to show some birds flip their breeding season in response to climate
In 2014, Felicity Newell joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as a doctoral student, then promptly left the country in search of a tropical spring. It's...
From engineered fungal molecules to drug leads, chem-bio hybrid synthesis enables antiparasitic drug discovery
Amebiasis is a parasitic disease caused by the microscopic protozoan Entamoeba histolytica. Infection occurs through the ingestion of cysts from contaminated wa...
Study finds 60% of Australia's top-use pesticides are banned in the EU
Analysis of Australia's highest-volume pesticide use has revealed that the majority of products widely used in Australian agriculture are banned in other parts...
Fieldoscopy reveals femtosecond optical switching in 15 nm indium tin oxide nanocrystals
Just as an antenna interacts with radio waves, light interacts with metallic nanostructures. Therefore, understanding how a structure influences field oscillati...
Birds of prey act as sentinels to warn of forever chemicals
A new paper investigates how raptors, or birds of prey like hawks and eagles, act as a sentinel species that can reveal the level of forever chemicals in the lo...