Heliofungia actiniformis uses pulsed inflation to try to survive coral bleaching.
Credit: Brett Lewis, QUT
Coral researchers have for the first time captured the specific behaviour of a coral as it's bleaching.
The team from QUT in Australia used a clever combination...
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...
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...
Green florescent proteins are responsible for the bioluminescence in sea jellies.
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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...
Water (stock image). Researchers have used cobalt oxide nanoparticles to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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Researchers from the University of Houston have found a catalyst that can quickly generate hydrogen from water using sunlight, potentially...
Titan's winter polar vortex imaged by the Cassini Spacecraft's ISS camera. The vortex is now in deep winter and can only be seen because the polar clouds within the vortex extend high above Titan's surface into the sunlight. The...
MIT scientists have determined the structure of an enzyme that is found in ocean microbes and can produce a precursor to methane.
Credit: David Born
Industrial and agricultural activities produce large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global...
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...
Street flooding in Miami (stock image).
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The East Coast of the United States is threatened by more frequent flooding in the future. This is shown by a recent study by the Universities of Bonn, South Florida,...
After an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the virus persists in the body throughout a person's lifetime.
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After an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the virus persists in the body throughout a person's lifetime, usually...
AWARE instruments at the WAIS Divide field camp in central West Antarctica in December 2015 under a spectacular optical display ("sun dog") due to atmospheric ice crystals.
Credit: Colin Jenkinson, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
An area of West Antarctica more than...
