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...
Sediment cores were collected from Pine Island Bay in West Antarctica using the German research vessel RV Polarstern.
Credit: James Smith @ British Antarctic Survey
Reporting in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS)...
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...
Female mountain gorilla. The ancestors of simian primates -- such as gorillas, gibbons and tamarins -- were among the first to give up nocturnal activity altogether.
Credit: © F.C.G. / Fotolia
Mammals only started being active in the daytime after non-avian...
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.
Credit: Photo: The Jena Experiment
How serious is the loss of species globally?...
Aberration-corrected HAADF/STEM images of as-synthesized Rh-ZSM-5. Single rhodium cations are circled in white with proposed ball-stick model of the structure.
Credit: Lawrence F. Allard, co-author and researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The direct oxidation of methane -- found in natural...
Sealings from the archive of Doliche.
Credit: Asia Minor Research Centre
Classical scholars from the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" of the University of Münster discovered a large number of sealings in south-east Turkey. "This unique group of artefacts comprising...
This is image shows modern Mars (left) dry and barren, compared with the same scene over 3.5 billion years ago covered in water (right). The rocks of the surface were slowly reacting with the water, sequestering it into the...
The white calcite 'veins' of the Loma Blanca fault are evident in this slab of rock on the fault. These veins of calcite reveal a record of fluid-driven earthquakes clustered together on a fault typically characterized by less frequent,...
Nelson Sepulveda is a nanotechnology researcher and associate professor of engineering at Michigan State University.
Credit: Michigan State University
A paper-thin, flexible device created at Michigan State University not only can generate energy from human motion, it can act as a...
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).
Credit: KIT
Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have made major progress...
