Science
Scientific discoveries and research
Earth's toughest microbes could help save the planet and find life on other worlds
Extremophiles may well be tiny, but they are making a huge contribution to the health of our planet and our lives. A new review of these microorganisms, publish...
Warmer, wetter cyclone weather made Peru's dengue outbreak 10 times larger, study finds
Diseases historically absent from the United States have been showing up in Florida, Texas, California and other U.S. states in recent years. To understand why,...
Computational bio tool automates and standardizes genome sequencing analysis
In a single experiment, scientists can decipher the entire genomes of many patient samples, animal models, or cultured cells. To fully realize the potential to...
How plant populations keep a genetic memory of the past
Plants are usually seen as stationary life forms, quietly supporting environments. But plant communities and populations are far from static. They are constantl...
Australia doesn't have a youth crime problem—it has a youth justice problem
Getting tough on youth crime is politically easy. Building a youth justice system that is safe, accountable and capable of learning is much harder. And the publ...
Scientists show dragon fruit peel extract boosts bread nutrition and lowers glycemic potential
A research team led by Professor Zhou Weibiao from the Department of Food Science and Technology at the NUS Faculty of Science has shown that compounds extracte...
Inverse design: A new pathway to custom functional polymers
At a potluck, you ate the best chocolate chip cookie—golden-brown, thick and chewy. Unfortunately, you don't know who made the cookie to get the recipe from, so...
Researcher finds that telling the truth is correlated with better criminal justice outcomes
Research from a Bowling Green State University faculty member recently found that one of the best strategies in the context of the criminal justice system is an...
Students discover new crab egg predator
After a year and a half of remote work and learning, UC Santa Barbara undergraduate students Sophia Lecuona Manos, Gabrielle Plewe, Carson Gadler and doctoral s...
Solar energy transforms polystyrene waste into valuable chemicals using sulfur
Turning waste into wealth may no longer be just a marketing slogan, as a team of researchers in China has found an eco-friendly way to do exactly that. The abun...
Nanoengineered spintronic device can store data in four different ways
Over the past decades, electronics engineers have been trying to develop increasingly smaller devices that can store information reliably, even when they are no...
Large craters offer clues to the origin of asteroid 16 Psyche
Even 200 years after asteroid 16 Psyche was discovered, astronomers continue to puzzle over its formation. Psyche is the 10th-most massive asteroid in the main...