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Monitor lizard should be regarded as ‘ecosystem engineer,’ researchers say
Ten years of research led by the University of South Florida has revealed that a monitor lizard should be regarded as an "ecosystem engineer,"...
Study resolves the position of fleas on the tree of life
study of more than 1,400 protein-coding genes of fleas has resolved one of the longest standing mysteries in the evolution of insects, reordering their...
Plants can be larks or night owls just like us
Plants have the same variation in body clocks as that found in humans, according to new research that explores the genes governing circadian rhythms...
The ‘crazy beast’ that lived among the dinosaurs
New research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology describes a bizarre 66 million-year-old mammal that provides profound new insights into the evolutionary history of...
The Milky Way’s primordial history and its fossil findings
Just as archaeologists dig hoping to find traces of the past, an international group of astrophysicists managed to get into the thick cloud of...
Ice sheet uncertainties could mean sea level will rise more than...
Sea level could rise higher than current estimates by 2100 if climate change is unchallenged, according to a new assessment.
Its authors say understanding the...
Research team develops new material system to convert and generate terahertz...
On the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz light is located between infrared radiation and microwaves. It holds enormous potential for tomorrow's technologies: Among other things, it...
Researchers discover new way to deliver DNA-based therapies for diseases
University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers in the Department of Chemistry have created a new polymer to deliver DNA and RNA-based therapies for diseases....
More than half of Hudson River tidal marshes were created accidentally...
In a new study of tidal marsh resilience to sea level rise, geologist and first author Brian Yellen at the University of Massachusetts Amherst...
Study finds meteoric evidence for a previously unknown asteroid
A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists has identified a potentially new meteorite parent asteroid by studying a small shard of a meteorite that...
Ultra-fast gas flows through tiniest holes in 2-D membranes
Researchers from the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester and the University of Pennsylvania have identified ultra-fast gas flows through the tiniest...
