Reconsider the impact of trees on water cycles and climate, scientists say
The global conversation on trees, forests and climate needs to be turned on its head, say scientists, because the direct effects of trees on...
15,000 scientists in 184 countries warn about negative global environmental trends
Planet Earth, photographed Dec. 7, 1972, during the Apollo 17 mission.
Credit: NASA
Human well-being will be severely jeopardized by negative trends in some types of...
Interstellar mystery solved by supercomputer simulations
Spiral structure emerges in Feedback in Realistic Environments (FIRE) simulation, which modeled stellar feedback on galaxy formation.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of Texas at...
Assembly of galaxies in the early universe witnessed for the first time
This view is a combination of images from ALMA and the Very Large Telescope. The central object is a very distant galaxy, labelled BDF...
Mystery of exploding stars yields to astrophysicists
A visualization of a computer simulation of a Type Ia supernova. Ejected material (brown) from an exploding white dwarf star crashes into its companion...
Anatomy of a cosmic snake reveals structure of distant galaxies
The Cosmic Snake is the image of a distant galaxy, deflected by a strong gravitational lens.
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, A.Cava
We have a fair understanding of...
Gene prompts cells to store fat, fueling obesity
The experimental mouse on the right lacks a gene for ankyrin-B, causing his fat cells to slurp up twice as much glucose and making...
World’s longest sauropod dinosaur trackway brought to light
Dinosaur tracks in Plagne, France (stock image).
Credit: © nmnac01 / Fotolia
In 2009, the world's largest dinosaur tracks were discovered in the French village of...
Autonomously growing synthetic DNA strands
Primer Exchange Reaction (PER) cascades enable the autonomous growth of single-stranded DNAs. On the top, a 'catalytic PER hairpin' binds a first 'primer' (shown...
An abundant and inexpensive water-splitting photocatalyst with low toxicity
Figure 1 from the press release material. Electron microscope imagery of Sn3O4 catalyst. The synthesized material is a collection of microsized (one millionth of...
Controlling electron spin for efficient water splitting
Supramolecular structures select spins only if they are chiral.
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science
Water is made of oxygen and hydrogen, and splitting water molecules to...
