A new study finds temperature variability will increase in some regions (shown in red) as Earth warms, even as global variability declines.
Credit: Duke University, Nature Climate Change
Many tropical or subtropical regions could see sharp increases in natural temperature variability...
Transmittance electron microscopic image of the composite photocatalyst with two components, black phosphorus (BP) and graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4).
Credit: Osaka University
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and is considered by many to be a potential clean...
New results challenge the existing paradigm that late model diesel cars are associated, in general, with far higher PM emission rates.
Credit: © Tomasz Zajda / Fotolia
Modern diesel cars emit less pollution generally than cars that run on gasoline, says...
A new study from ORNL shows the far-reaching impacts of US cities' energy consumption on regional ecosystems. Urban areas cover only about 5 percent of the Southeast's landscape but cities' water and energy infrastructures often extend well beyond urban...
Researchers at South Dakota State University are looking at the nonfood oilseed, carinata, as a potential biofuel feedstock.
Credit: Image courtesy of South Dakota State University
The oil extracted from ground seeds of camelina and carinata, oilseed plants from the mustard...
Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupting on June 12, 1991. A much larger eruption occurred three days later.
Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
Explosive volcanic eruptions in the tropics can lead to El Niño events, those notorious warming periods in the Pacific...
Manduca sexta.
Credit: Anders Hedenström
For the first time, researchers are able to prove that there is an optimal speed for certain insects when they fly. At this speed, they are the most efficient and consume the least amount of energy....
Aerial view of the polynya in the Southern Ocean.
Credit: Jan Lieser, ACE CRC, Australia
Currently, winter has still a firm grip on Antarctica. At this time of the year, the Weddell Sea usually is covered with a thick layer of...
Heatwaves will become a daily occurrence over summer in some regions even if global warming is kept to 2°C.
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Summer in some regions of the world will become one long heatwave even if global average temperatures...
Haplobank contains over 100,000 mutated, conditional mouse embryonic stem cell lines, targeting about 70% of the protein-coding genome.
Credit: (c)Izabella Kaminski
Scientist at IMBA developed a biobank of revertible, mutant embryonic stem cells, published in the current issue of Nature. This...
The southern and western United States have the greatest capacity to produce evaporation-generated power from lakes and reservoirs, a new study in Nature Communications finds.
Credit: Columbia University
In the first evaluation of evaporation as a renewable energy source, researchers at...
