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How some algae may survive climate change
Green algae that evolved to tolerate hostile and fluctuating conditions in salt marshes and inland salt flats are expected to survive climate change, thanks...
One black hole or two? Dust clouds can explain puzzling features of active galactic...
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), believe clouds of dust, rather than twin black holes, can explain the features found in...
Unprecedented study confirms massive scale of lowland Maya civilization
Tulane University researchers, documenting the discovery of dozens of ancient cities in northern Guatemala through the use of jungle-penetrating Lidar (light detection and ranging)...
Plasma thruster: New space debris removal technology
The Earth is currently surrounded by debris launched into space over several decades. This space junk can collide with satellites, causing damage and creating...
Fossil evidence of large flowering trees in N. America 15 millions years earlier
A newly discovered fossil suggests that large, flowering trees grew in North America by the Turonian age, showing that these large trees were part...
The notorious luminous blue variable star
Sparkling with an exceptional blue-toned brilliance and exhibiting wild variations in both brightness and spectrum, the luminous blue variable (LBV) is a relatively rare...
Ledumahadi mafube—South Africa’s new jurassic giant
A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa's Free State Province. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12...
Scientists discover genetic basis for how harmful algal blooms become toxic
A team led by scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI)...
Neanderthals were no brutes – research reveals they may have been precision workers
Neanderthals were until quite recently often seen as simple-minded savages – powerful hunters with a short attention span. But in the last few years,...
Superconducting metamaterial traps quantum light
Conventional computers store information in a bit, a fundamental unit of logic that can take a value of 0 or 1. Quantum computers rely...
Microplastics are being overlooked in river ecosystems, 50 percent of freshwater insects contaminated
Research led by Cardiff University's School of Biosciences has revealed that microplastics are widespread in insects from South Wales rivers.
Microplastic fragments—pieces of plastic debris...
