West Antarctica glaciers observed during an October 2014 NASA Operation IceBridge mission. New research shows valleys in the ocean floor enable warm, salty water to reach the undersides of glaciers, fueling their increasingly rapid retreat.
Credit: NASA / Michael Studinger
Glaciologists...
This is an image of hippo teeth products for sale in an ivory shop in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.
Credit: Alexandra Andersson
Global wildlife trade is pushing many species to the brink of extinction. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered...
This is a map of recent Hawaiian volcanism, highlighting the Loa and Kea tracks.
Credit: Tim Jones, ANU
A study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has solved the 168-year-old mystery of how the world's biggest and most active volcanoes...
The genomes of the owl limpet (pictured), a freshwater leech and an ocean-dwelling worm are among the first sequenced genomes from a vast, understudied swath of the animal kingdom known as lophotrochozoans, which includes as many as one-quarter of...
Molecular model (stock image).
Credit: © alice_photo / Fotolia
Protein assemblies, designed and built from scratch to carry molecular cargo, are advancing both synthetic life research and engineering efforts for targeted drug delivery.
Scientists have succeeded in developing the...
Analogue black hole machine is pictured.
Credit: The University of Nottingham
Scientists at the University of Nottingham have made a significant leap forward in understanding the workings of one of the mysteries of the universe. They have successfully simulated the conditions...
Stability test of the novel MA(1-x)GuaxPbI3 perovskite material under continuous light illumination compared with the state-of-the-art MAPbI3. A schematic of the device architecture and the simulated crystalline structure is also provided.
Credit: M.K. Nazeeruddin/EPFL
With the power-conversion efficiency of silicon solar...
Adams Flat, one of the two sites in Antarctica where microbes were collected.
Credit: Phil O'Brien
UNSW-Sydney led scientists have discovered that microbes in Antarctica have a previously unknown ability to scavenge hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide from the air...
The genetic material of the HIV virus is encased in multiple structures that hide it from the host immune system. The capsid, in blue, protects the virus after it enters a cell and shuttles it to the nucleus, where...
Hard tick grasping a dinosaur feather preserved in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber. Modified from the open access article published in Nature Communications: 'Ticks parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages.'
Credit: Paper authors.
Fossilised ticks discovered trapped and preserved...
Brookhaven Lab scientists (from left) Ivan Bozovic, Xi He, Jie Wu, and Anthony Bollinger with the atomic layer-by-layer molecular beam epitaxy system used to synthesize the superconducting cuprate samples.
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory
The perfect performance of superconductors could revolutionize everything...
