Coral reefs prevent more than $5.3 billion in potential flood damage for U.S. property...
Coral reefs provide many services to coastal communities, including critical protection from flood damage. A new study led by researchers at the University of...
Among COVID-19 survivors, an increased risk of death, serious illness
As the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, it has become clear that many survivors -- even those who had mild cases -- continue to manage...
The DALI experiment: Searching for the axion, a proposed component of dark matter
The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of...
Hubble watches how a giant planet grows
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a rare look at a Jupiter-sized, still-forming planet that is feeding off material surrounding a young star.
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‘Awake’ concept brings proton bunches into sync
The future of particle acceleration has begun. Awake is a promising concept for a completely new method with which particles can be accelerated even...
Climate change: Amazon may be turning from friend to foe
The Brazilian Amazon released nearly 20 percent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the last decade than it absorbed, according to a stunning...
Antarctic ice-sheet melting to lift sea level higher than thought, study says
Global sea level rise associated with the possible collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been significantly underestimated in previous studies, meaning sea...
Move over CRISPR, the retrons are coming
Researchers have created a new gene editing tool called Retron Library Recombineering (RLR) that can generate up to millions of mutations simultaneously, and 'barcodes'...
Machine learning algorithm helps unravel the physics underlying quantum systems
Scientists from the University of Bristol's Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs) have developed an algorithm that provides valuable insights into the physics underlying quantum...
New law of physics helps humans and robots grasp the friction of touch
Although robotic devices are used in everything from assembly lines to medicine, engineers have a hard time accounting for the friction that occurs when...
New study has scientists re-evaluating relative brain size and mammalian intelligence
Scientists from Stony Brook University and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have pieced together a timeline of how brain and body size...
