Purple finches, indicators of healthy coniferous habitat, are declining in the Northwest, according to data from the Klamath Bird Observatory. Credit: J. Livaudais Populations of many North American songbirds are declining, and in many cases we don't understand why -- for...
Cave city in volcanic rocks of uplifted Central Anatolian plateau. Credit: Russell Pysklywec When renowned University of Toronto (U of T) geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson cemented concepts in the emerging field of plate tectonics in the 1960s, he revolutionized the study...
Flooded street. Credit: © kasto / Fotolia A new study by researchers from MIT and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich shows that the most extreme rain events in most regions of the world will increase in intensity by...
Green florescent proteins are responsible for the bioluminescence in sea jellies. Credit: © Glebstock / Fotolia Nearly 75 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger wondered if the mysterious world of quantum mechanics played a role in biology. A recent finding...
Black mouse ready to fight. Fighting behaviors and the neurons that represent them are not as fixed as previously believed. Credit: © lllorrri / Fotolia Adult male mice have a simple repertoire of innate, or instinctive, social behaviors: When encountering a...
Water (stock image). Researchers have used cobalt oxide nanoparticles to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Credit: © gertrudda / Fotolia Researchers from the University of Houston have found a catalyst that can quickly generate hydrogen from water using sunlight, potentially...
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...
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...
Reconstruction of Halszkaraptor escuilliei. This small dinosaur was a close relative of Velociraptor, but in both body shape and inferred lifestyle it much closely recalls some waterbirds like modern swans. Credit: Lukas Panzarin; and Andrea Cau for scientific supervision An exceptionally...
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...
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...