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New tool maps public land with potential for hundreds of thousands of affordable homes in British Columbia
A new research tool is highlighting publicly owned land that may have potential for affordable housing development in B.C., with early analysis revealing more t...
LSST begins full operations with key contributions from Japanese researchers and engineers
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun full operations for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), one of the world's largest astronomical i...
Huge, specially designed heat pump saves a Norwegian agricultural cooperative millions
There are some magical limits to how much energy we can get out of a heat pump. This story is about pushing the technical limits. It is about getting more energ...
Sun-powered sponges may generate 11% of tropical coral reef productivity
In marine environments, sponges tend to eat other organisms to get their nutrients. But a study published in Functional Ecology by researchers at the University...
How extreme weather impacts white stork survival in Bulgaria
A comprehensive 15-year study published in Biodiversity Data Journal details the growing threat of extreme weather to white storks (Ciconia ciconia) in Bulgaria...
Earliest Americans specialized in megafauna hunting from Alaska to South America, analysis of 50 sites reveals
New research led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeologist reveals that the earliest Native Americans had highly specialized diets, primarily hunting th...
New star activity catalog could sharpen hunt for habitable worlds
Searching for habitable worlds beyond our solar system involves more than having a planet orbit within its star's habitable zone, the region where temperatures...
Hidden for decades, hospital superbug built resistance in waves, peaking in the mid‑2000s
Decades-old hospital samples have helped University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers uncover how a deadly antibiotic-resistant "superbug" quietly tightened its...
Over the past 15 years, Brazil has seen a more than 200% increase in non-native mollusk species
A study published in the journal Biological Invasions indicates that Brazil currently has at least 82 non-native mollusk species, in addition to 13 whose origin...
Cosmic dust could play key role in cracking long-standing mystery of solar corona heating
A researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a new study in The Astrophysical Journa...
'Stop the war!': The paradox of 'pressure petitions'
They knew their gesture was futile and could have serious personal repercussions, but that didn't stop more than 1.5 million Russians from signing anti-war peti...
Cutting emissions more, removing carbon less could save 33,000 U.S. lives yearly
Published in Nature Climate Change, new research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison finds that reaching net-zero emissions by midcentury would substantial...