Climate models fail to simulate recent air-pressure changes over Greenland
Climatologists may be unable to accurately predict regional climate change over the North Atlantic because computer model simulations have failed to accurately include air...
Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis
Humans are exterminating animal and plant species so quickly that nature's built-in defence mechanism, evolution, cannot keep up. An Aarhus-led research team calculated that...
Two degrees decimated Puerto Rico’s insect populations
While temperatures in the tropical forests of northeastern Puerto Rico have climbed two degrees Celsius since the mid-1970s, the biomass of arthropods—invertebrate animals such...
Study shows what happens when ultrafast laser pulses, not heat, cause a material to...
The way that ordinary materials undergo a phase change, such as melting or freezing, has been studied in great detail. Now, a team of...
Biomaterials with ‘Frankenstein proteins’ help heal tissue
Biomedical engineers from Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis have demonstrated that, by injecting an artificial protein made from a solution of...
Beer supply threatened by future weather extremes
Severe climate events could cause shortages in the global beer supply, according to new research involving the University of East Anglia (UEA).
The study warns...
Oldest evidence for animals found
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have found the oldest clue yet of animal life, dating back at least 100 million years before...
Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets form
Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first time that so many massive planets...
Quantum computers tackle big data with machine learning
Every two seconds, sensors measuring the United States' electrical grid collect 3 petabytes of data – the equivalent of 3 million gigabytes. Data analysis...
Males have greater reproductive success if they spend more time taking care of kids
Males have greater reproductive success if they spend more time taking care of kids -- and not necessarily only their own, according to new...
Sea snail shells dissolve in increasingly acidified oceans, study shows
Shelled marine creatures living in increasingly acidified oceans face a fight for survival as the impacts of climate change spread, a new study suggests.
Researchers...
