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Study shows human impacts on oceans nearly doubled in recent decade, could double again...
Over the recent decade, total human impacts to the world's oceans have, on average, nearly doubled and could double again in the next decade...
Second baby planet found using pioneering technique
Monash astrophysicists using the ALMA telescope in Chile have a made a world-first discovery with the sighting of a second new 'baby' planet (two...
Largest-ever study of coral communities unlocks global solution to save reefs
The largest study ever conducted of its kind has identified where and how to save coral reef communities in the Indo-Pacific, according to an...
Diarrhea-causing bacteria adapted to spread in hospitals
Scientists have discovered that the gut-infecting bacterium Clostridium difficile is evolving into two separate species, with one group highly adapted to spread in hospitals. Researchers at...
A new timeline of Earth’s cataclysmic past
Earth's cataclysmic past is a fact. Welcome to the early solar system. Just after the planets formed more than 4.5 billion years ago, our...
An alternate theory for what causes Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia among the elderly, is characterized by plaques and tangles in the brain, with most efforts at...
First cells may have emerged because building blocks of proteins stabilized membranes
Life on Earth arose about 4 billion years ago when the first cells formed within a primordial soup of complex, carbon-rich chemical compounds.
These cells...
Glitch in neutron star reveals its hidden secrets
Neutron stars are not only the most dense objects in the Universe, but they rotate very fast and regularly. Until they don't.
Occasionally these neutron stars start...
Methane not released by wind on Mars, experts find
Wind erosion has been ruled out as the primary cause of methane gas release on Mars, Newcastle University academics have shown.
Methane can be produced...
Dyes and viruses create new composite material for photo-oxidation reactions
A recent study, published in Advanced Materials, shows that native viruses can be employed as a scaffold to immobilise photoactive molecules to potentially oxidise organic...
Thinnest optical waveguide channels light within just three layers of atoms
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the thinnest optical device in the world—a waveguide that is three layers of atoms...
