Due to its breadth, the Jena experiment proves for the first time that a loss of biodiversity has negative consequences for many individual components and processes in ecosystems.
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How serious is the loss of species globally?...
Models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may be underestimating future warming.
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The climate models that project greater amounts of warming this century are the ones that best align with observations of the current...
The research team camped in these tents near the drill site in Antarctica.
Credit: Reed Scherer
Lurking in a lake half a mile beneath Antarctica's icy surface, methane-eating microbes may mitigate the release of this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as...
The metal-organic framework is set up like a sandwich (a). The molecular textile layer is woven in an active layer that is embedded between so-called sacrificial layers (b).
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Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have made major progress...
Using fluorescent lights, Kerry Sieh and Charles Rubin of the Earth Observatory of Singapore look for charcoal and shells for radiocarbon dating.
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An international team of scientists digging in a sea cave in Indonesia has discovered...
The naked HIV capsid, left, would be quickly detected and eliminated from the cell, but a host protein, cyclophilin A, in red in the image on the right, binds to the capsid and enables it to transit through the...
Tomato plants produce repellent chemicals called volatile organic compounds in response to herbivore attacks. (Stock image)
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In sports, sometimes a player has to take one for the team. The same appears to be true in...
The photograph shows the Shingle Pass section in east central Nevada, where late Cambrian to Middle Ordovician (460 to 495 million years ago) limestone rocks are exposed. These strata were sampled for carbon and sulfur isotopic analysis in order...
Evidence from ancient volcanic deposits suggests that lunar magma contained substantial amounts of water, bolstering the idea that the moon's interior is water-rich.
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A new study of satellite data finds that numerous volcanic deposits distributed across the...
Enjoying nature. Credit: The University of Queensland
People who visit parks for 30 minutes or more each week are much less likely to have high blood pressure or poor mental health than those who don't, according to new research by...
Nelson Sepulveda is a nanotechnology researcher and associate professor of engineering at Michigan State University.
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A paper-thin, flexible device created at Michigan State University not only can generate energy from human motion, it can act as a...
