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El Nino powers up as forecasters predict historic strength and a rainier winter for the US South
An intensifying El Niño, nature's heat-releasing thermostat that spikes global temperatures, is heading to historically strong levels, the U.S. National Oceanic...
Wearables to track plant health: Farmers could use real-time information to manage crop conditions
A smartwatch can tell us the level of oxygen in our blood, when our sleep is restless or the number of steps we take in a day. Now imagine that kind of tracking...
Sustainability reporting no longer shields companies from criticism
In the past few years, new rules from governments across Europe have required companies to increase their reporting on their sustainability efforts. Since then,...
Harmful ozone may have reached two-thirds of EU residents during record June heat wave
Two-thirds of the European Union's population may have been exposed to harmful levels of ozone pollution during last month's record-breaking heat wave, a report...
Camera traps reveal Chornobyl wildlife changed routines during Russian occupation
An international research team has for the first time investigated how an unfolding armed conflict influenced the behavior of wild animals. Using camera traps,...
Falling water levels trigger a surge in methane emissions from Mediterranean reservoirs
Continental aquatic ecosystems, such as lakes and reservoirs, occupy a small proportion of Earth's surface but play a significant role in the global carbon cycl...
Shackleton's final ship is no longer just a sonar shadow
An expedition led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in partnership with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has obtained the first close-up images of...
What if our homes could move?
Imagine living in a home that you could simply pick up and move when extreme weather strikes. Instead of bricks and mortar, it's made from materials sourced fro...
Study identifies key mechanism regulating how cells use fat to generate energy
An international study by scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) and the University of California, Los Angeles...
STING protein: Study finds new ways for the body to activate and possibly control inflammation
Understanding inflammation—and, above all, how to regulate it—is one of the great medical challenges of modern medicine. Its role as the first line of defense i...
'Check your ingredients': A new blueprint for using Fermi's 'Golden Rule'
Underpinning much of modern technology, from smartphones to scanning tunneling microscopes to particle colliders, is Fermi's Golden Rule. Named for 20th-century...
New genomic method to track disease outbreaks globally
Phylo-Plex, a new computational method, has been developed by Wellcome Sanger Institute scientists and their collaborators to allow cost-effective and scalable...