Oct. 7, 2020 — The reintroduction of seagrass into Virginia's coastal bays is one of the great success stories in marine restoration. Now, a long-term monitoring study shows this success extends far beyond a ...
Oct. 7, 2020 — Ringed seals and other Arctic marine mammals are important in the diet of Arctic Indigenous peoples. A study spanning 45 years of testing indicates that mercury concentrations in ringed seals from ...
Oct. 6, 2020 — Researchers have improved a method for probing semiconducting crystals with light to detect defects and impurities. The details of their 'omnidirectional photoluminescence (ODPL) ...
Oct. 5, 2020 — If countries want to lower emissions as substantially, rapidly and cost-effectively as possible, they should prioritize support for renewables, rather than nuclear power, the findings of a major new ...
Oct. 5, 2020 — Chemical engineers have developed a new way to manufacture zeolitic membranes, state-of-the-art materials used for gas separation in harsh ...
Oct. 5, 2020 — Dust blowing onto high mountains in the western Himalayas is a bigger factor than previously thought in hastening the melting of snow there, researchers show. That's because dust - lots of it in ...
Oct. 5, 2020 — A study of a solar-energy material with a bright future revealed a way to slow phonons, the waves that transport heat. The discovery could improve novel hot-carrier solar cells, which convert ...
Oct. 5, 2020 — Researchers show how the catalytic activity of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, can be significantly increased. This brings biotechnological and thus eco-friendly application a big step ...
Oct. 5, 2020 — Researchers focused on the stability of tropical rainforests in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. With their approach they were able to explore how rainforests respond to changing ...
Oct. 2, 2020 — Allowing farmers to harvest vegetation from their riparian buffers will not significantly impede the ability of those streamside tracts to protect water quality by capturing nutrients and sediment -- ...
Oct. 2, 2020 — The Earth's nature reserves are set to be affected by future climate change in very different ways. Detailed local knowledge of climate change impacts can therefore make a significant ...
Oct. 2, 2020 — Global warming is driving an unprecedented rise in sea temperatures including in the Mediterranean, according to a major new ...
Oct. 2, 2020 — Agricultural scientists and engineers have identified a potential new tool for screening cereal crops for frost ...
Oct. 2, 2020 — Researchers analyzed these geographic regions, which include cities like New Orleans, Bangkok, and Shanghai, using a new global dataset to determine how many people live on river deltas, how many are ...
Oct. 2, 2020 — Research showed that ingesting lint caused significant abnormality within the mussels' gills, as well as atrophy or deformities leading to loss of definition in digestive ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — The songs that crickets and katydids sing at night to attract mates can help in monitoring and mapping their populations, according to US researchers, whose study of Orthoptera species in central ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — Researchers have successfully overcome a limiting problem with stabilizing the best-performing formulation of metal-halide perovskite films, a key player in a range of applications, including solar ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — Naturally formed balancing boulders could be used to help scientists to forecast large earthquakes more ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — A new study reveals that decent living standards could be provided to the entire global population of 10 billion that is expected to be reached by 2050, for less than 40% of today's global ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — Every third child in the world has too much lead in their body, according to a new report from UNICEF and Pure ...
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