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Carpobrotus. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Some invasive plants can form persistent banks of seeds that remain under the soil for years, and this makes their eradication practically impossible. Over time, this invisible population of large quantities of living, buried plants—in seed form—will reoccupy ecosystems and displace the typical flora of the natural environment. This is … Read more

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Astrobotic’s damaged Peregrine lander managed to send data back from all nine of its interfacing payloads over the three days it’s been hurtling through space, the company said. An additional payload received power, making for a full demonstration of the startup’s first lander, aside from the fact that none of the … Read more

The positions of these water molecules are often important for understanding protein flexibility and the ability of drug-like molecules to influence protein structure and function. In this study, different unique waters appeared at the surface of the protein under different experimental perturbations such as high temperature (red), high pressure (green), or default conditions (blue), offering … Read more

Credit: University of Malaga An international scientific team including more than 40 authors from seven different countries, led by a researcher at the University of Malaga Juan Pascual Anaya, has managed to sequence the first genome of the myxini, also known as hagfish, the only large group of vertebrates for which there has been no … Read more

A soft summer evening in the Paleoproterozoic, as envisioned by DALL-E. Credit: DALL-E / Harrison Tasoff The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia’s Northern Territory; it’ll set again in another 19 hours. A young moon looms large over the desolate landscape. No animals scurry in the waning light. No leaves rustle … Read more

Toxic algae blooms on the water surface. Credit: FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Florida’s 156-mile-long Indian River Lagoon (IRL) borders five different counties and has five inlets that connect the lagoon with the Atlantic Ocean. This estuary has recently experienced numerous phytoplankton bloom events due to increased seasonal temperatures and environmental impacts. Algal blooms produce … Read more

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Research from Anglia Ruskin University’s Policing Institute for the Eastern Region (PIER) shows that two-way communication, as well as careful monitoring, is the most effective way to prepare girls to handle online requests for indecent images. The research draws on survey results that were conducted following a public awareness campaign run … Read more

By adjusting the occupancy of the 4f orbitals, it is possible to induce the HAT mechanism for the activation of C-H bonds. Credit: Science China Press As the “holy grail” in the field of chemistry, the catalytic activation of methane has been a topic of great interest in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. Gas-phase experiments … Read more

Physicist Gregor Hlawacek, head of the EU project FIT4NANO, is responsible for a state-of-the-art facility at the HZDR where he can produce and analyze nanostructures using a particularly finely focused ion beam. Credit: Oliver Killig/HZDR Processing materials on the nanoscale, producing prototypes for microelectronics or analyzing biological samples: The range of applications for finely focused … Read more