Science
Scientific discoveries and research
Closing the gap between wildfire modeling and real-world response
Canada's 2023 wildfire season burned more than 18.5 million hectares (45.7 million acres), an area larger than Greece. As fires like these grow more frequent an...
JWST reveals a race against time for forming planets
Planets form from disks of gas and dust around young stars, but the gas needed for growth does not last forever. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space T...
Habitat changes found to be no deterrent for some Fijian native bees
While extreme weather and habitat changes can spell doom for many native animals, including insects, a different picture has emerged from a new study led by Fli...
Microcline reveals how a common mineral surface triggers ice formation in clouds
Pure water freezes only at around -38°C (-36°F). Tiny mineral dust particles act as so-called ice nucleators—crystallization seeds on which ice crystals form. A...
Pomegranate emerges as a promising natural phytobiotic for veterinary medicine
Researchers have identified a broad range of biological properties of pomegranate with potential medical applications, including antimicrobial, antiparasitic, a...
Finding the world's highest late Middle Pleistocene marine deposits
Selma Sarı and an international group of colleagues investigated the TOL-1 section in the Mut Basin (southern Türkiye), while documenting the world's highest kn...
Sound waves do double duty, carrying and protecting quantum information
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a promising new way to protect fragile quantum in...
Developing a genetic toolkit for manipulating abundant intestinal microbes
Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have developed a set of molecular tools to regulate the activity of specific genes in one of the most common classes of int...
How to win shares and influence fast-food market: Warm and fuzzy can't cut it
New research from QUT challenges a common assumption in social media marketing: For fast-food brands, social media posts that signal expertise and competence ar...
Even biodiversity-friendly policies may not halt declines in Europe's common birds and butterflies by 2050
As part of its efforts to map out Europe's science-policy interface for biodiversity, a paper on the correlation between governance objectives for safeguarding...
Machine learning method uncovers hidden patterns in DNA methylation
In a study recently published in Nature Communications, researchers from Berlin, Potsdam, and Jena present a new method for analyzing the epigenome. The machine...
'Buy now, pay later' may reshape retail prices, inventory, research finds
"Buy now, pay later" plans—which allow consumers to split purchases into a handful of interest-free installments—have become a common way for Americans to pay f...