Radioactivity from oil and gas wastewater persists in Pennsylvania stream sediments
More than seven years after Pennsylvania officials requested that the disposal of radium-laden fracking wastewater into surface waters be restricted, a new Duke University...
Fanged friends: World’s most vilified and dangerous animals may be humankind’s best ally
An international review led by the University of Queensland and WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) says that many native carnivores that live in and around...
Real-world intercontinental quantum communications enabled by the Micius satellite
Private and secure communications are fundamental human needs. In particular, with the exponential growth of Internet use and e-commerce, it is of paramount importance...
Protein designed entirely from scratch functions in cells as a genuine enzyme
A dawning field of research, artificial biology, is working toward creating a genuinely new organism. At Princeton, chemistry professor Michael Hecht and the researchers in his...
UNH researchers find human impact on forest still evident after 500 years
Tropical forests span a huge area, harbor a wide diversity of species, and are important to water and nutrient cycling on a planet scale....
How did we evolve to live longer?
Researchers at Newcastle University show that a collection of small adaptations in proteins that respond to stress, accumulated over millennia of human history, could...
Large volcanic island flank collapses trigger catastrophic eruptions
New research, published today in Nature Scientific Reports, not only implies a link between catastrophic volcanic eruptions and landslides, but also suggests that landslides are...
Counting chromosomes: Plant scientists solve a century-old mystery about reproduction
Counting is vital in nature. Counting chromosomes is something that most animals, plants and even single-celled organisms need to know how to do to...
Researchers create first stem cells using CRISPR genome activation
In a scientific first, researchers at the Gladstone Institutes turned skin cells from mice into stem cells by activating a specific gene in the...
Flu may be spread just by breathing
It is easier to spread the influenza virus (flu) than previously thought, according to a new University of Maryland-led study released today. People commonly...
Researchers find first evidence of sub-Saharan Africa glassmaking
Scholars from Rice University, University College London and the Field Museum have found the first direct evidence that glass was produced in sub-Saharan Africa...
