China sweated through its hottest July on record last month. It is “increasingly likely” 2024 will be the hottest year on record, despite July ending a 13-month streak of monthly temperature records, the EU’s climate monitor said Thursday. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said last month was the second warmest on record books going … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists have developed a new way of counting labeled proteins in living cells that could become a standard and valuable tool in the field of biomedical research. This powerful new technique, known as Protein-tag Degree of Labeling (ProDOL), provides a robust and versatile approach for precisely determining labeling efficiencies, the number … Read more
Burned trees are seen after illegal fires were lit by farmers in Manaquiri, Amazonas state, Brazil in September 2023. Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest increased in July for the first time in 15 months, according to official data released Wednesday. An area of 666 square kilometers (250 square miles) was destroyed in the Amazon last … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Since the industrial revolution, microbes have successfully colonized one novel type of habitat after another: for example, marine oil spills, plastic floating in the oceans, industrial brownfields, and even the interior of the International Space Station. However, it turns out that one extreme environment harboring a specialized community of highly adapted … Read more
Joe Ralph, co-lead author and inertial confinement fusion research physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, discusses the critical role of implosion symmetry in achieving a burning plasma state at the National Ignition Facility. Credit: Blaise Douros/LLNL Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have retrospectively confirmed that implosion asymmetry was a major aspect of fusion … Read more
Two mongoose lemurs find cantaloupe hidden in a container at the Lemur Conservation Foundation in Florida. Credit: Elena Cunningham How do foraging animals find their food? A new study by New York University researchers shows that lemurs use smell, social cues, and long-term memory to locate hidden fruit—a combination of factors that may have deep … Read more
Jenny Williams flying a fixed-wing drone in Madagascar to survey the island’s forests for signs of illegal logging. Madagascar’s biodiversity is incredibly unique with a high percentage of endemic species of flora and fauna. Credit: Stuart Cable/RBG Kew In a new study published today in the journal Plants, People, Planet, scientist Jenny Williams from the … Read more
Schematic of adhesion experiments and adhesion values in dry and wet conditions during approach. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn8343 Scientists at the University of Akron and the University of Pittsburgh have overturned long-held assumptions in new research that finds water can be a help for adhesion. Dr. Ali Dhinojwala, distinguished W. Gerald Austen Endowed … Read more
A Michigan State University researcher holds a vial of Arabidopsis seeds floating in water. Each seed can be as small as a grain of sand. Credit: Kara Headley/MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory Researchers at Michigan State University have discovered two proteins that work together to determine the fate of cells in plants facing certain stresses. Ironically, … Read more
Dutch employees who worked from home tended to report higher levels of productivity and less burnout if they were more satisfied with their home office setup, according to the new study. Credit: Domenico Loia, Unsplash, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) In a new survey study, Dutch employees who worked from home tended to report higher levels of productivity … Read more
