Researchers team has developed inks made of graphene-like materials for inkjet printing. New black phosphorous inks are compatible with conventional inkjet printing techniques for optoelectronics and photonics. Credit: University of Cambridge An international research team has developed inks made of graphene-like...
Models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may be underestimating future warming. Credit: © f9photos / Fotolia The climate models that project greater amounts of warming this century are the ones that best align with observations of the current...
White-headed capuchin in Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica. Credit: © nicksen / Fotolia Rhesus macaques and capuchin monkeys can find a stable solution when playing a competitive game in which one opponent always does better than the other, but only...
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Field trips of the future?

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Will virtual reality rob future students of the awe and wonder naturalists experience when exploring nature? Virtual reality has nothing on nature. Just ask the UC Santa Barbara students who one recent day trekked to a forest before dawn to...
Cyclone Chapala over the Gulf of Aden Nov. 2, 2015. Credit: NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response Researchers from Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report in the journal Nature Climate Change that extreme cyclones...
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...
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Mars: Not as dry as it seems

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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...
Methane hydrate recovered from ocean sediments off Svalbard dissociates into water and methane gas under surface pressure and temperature conditions, allowing the methane released to be lit on fire. Credit: Image courtesy of National Oceanography Centre Methane seeps from seafloor deposits...
Flood of Genova, November 2011. Credit: © fotonazario / Fotolia Losses from extreme floods in Europe could more than double by 2050, because of climate change and socioeconomic development. Understanding the risk posed by large-scale floods is of growing importance and...
Most of the known volcanic hotspots are linked to plumes of hot rock (red) rising from two spots on the boundary between the metal core and rocky mantle 1,800 miles below Earth's surface. Credit: Image courtesy of University of California...
This is a macroalgae dominated reef in the Seychelles. Credit: Nicholas Graham Researchers examining the impact of climate change on coral reefs have found a way to predict which reefs are likely to recover following bleaching episodes and which won't. Coral...