Tag: environment

Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff: Exposing Ancient Cereal Cultivation

08/12/2016

Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication ...

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pharmaceutical psilocybin

Return Trip? Magic Mushrooms and Cancer

04/12/2016

Psilocybin relieves anxiety and depression in patients with advanced cancer ...

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The Unexpected Healing Power of Platypus Venom

03/12/2016

Platypus venom could hold key to diabetes treatment ...

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Blue Whales, shipping

Don’t Tell the Japanese. New Ways of Tracking Blue Whales

02/12/2016

New forecast tool helps ships avoid blue whale hotspots ...

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Have an Ice Day: Lake Ecologists Consider the Winter Season

29/11/2016

Study finds life under the ice is vibrant, complex and surprisingly active...

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Check Your Pants! This Ethiopian Ant Could Conquer the World

27/11/2016

New dominant ant species discovered in Ethiopia shows potential for global invasion ...

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Transgenic grass

Greening the Battlefields (but destroying the planet?) with Transgenic Grass

25/11/2016

New grasses neutralize toxic pollution from bombs, explosives, and munitions ...

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No, Really. You Definitely Won’t Guess What’s Cooling the Arctic

20/11/2016

An unexpected ally in the fight against climate change. ...

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subtropical rainfall

Get the Washing In! New Projections for Subtropical Rainfall

16/11/2016

Study finds less gloomy outlook for subtropical rainfall ...

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Meteorites Show Martian Drought Was Long-Lived

13/11/2016

Mars is incredibly dry, and has been that way for millions of years....

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Pacific spiny dogfish shark

Born Slippy: The Freaky Chemistry of the Pacific Spiny Dogfish Shark

29/10/2016

How sharks recycle toxic ammonia to keep their skin moist ...

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edible insects

Tastes Like Chicken? Wiggly Meat and the Rise of Edible Insects

28/10/2016

The buzz about edible bugs: Can they replace beef? ...

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FastFags: Growing More Tobacco, Quicker Tobacco

27/10/2016

Scientists at MIPT beat the clock by quickly finding out what makes plants tick...

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Autumn leaves

Is That Russet, Vermillion or Pheophytin A? The Science of Autumn

26/10/2016

Mendel's Stay-Green gene encodes an enzyme that extracts magnesium from chlorophyll, colouring our Autumn vistas...

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Renewable energy flooring by Stephanie PrecourtUW-Madison

The Next Step for Renewable Energy. Literally

21/10/2016

Move over, solar: The next big renewable energy source could be at our feet ...

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You WILL Go Into The Round Hole! Genomics Creates Climateproof Grapes

19/10/2016

Genomics breakthrough paves way for climate-tolerant wine grape varieties ...

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No Rain, No Rivers Flow? Ethiopia to Benefit from Climate Change

16/10/2016

Climate change may help Ethiopia, and increase the country's access to water ...

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Global Sustainability : Futile Surface-Scratching or Hope for the Future?

15/10/2016

Global sustainability projects offer hope for the future ...

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Feigned Swoons beat Locker Room Bravado Every Time (US Elections)

14/10/2016

Ignore the neo-Victorian faux umbrage of the Clinton camp and instead contemplate the corporate bloodbath HRC will helm...

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sea snakes

‘A thousand thousand slimy things…’: Sea Snakes in Iran

10/10/2016

Iranian coastal waters: New home to a rarely seen venomous sea snake ...

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Slim Shadysaurus: What We’ve Learned From the Patterns on a Psittacosaurus

24/09/2016

What dinosaurs' color patterns say about their lives ...

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A Decade of ‘Delics: Shroom, Ten Years On

20/09/2016

Ten years later, the cultural history of the magic mushroom still gathers fans and furore...

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Now That’s Impressive: Water-Powered Satellite to Orbit Moon

18/09/2016

Cornell's quest: Make the first CubeSat to orbit the moon...

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Lisa Black

The Right Stuff. Rogue Taxidermy (Lisa Black)

14/09/2016

Unsettling and incisive, Lisa Black's artworks ask questions of the viewer and our approach to nature...

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Crushing Corncobs for Cleaner Cars

06/09/2016

Making hydrogen fuel using a biological method that greatly reduces the time and money it takes to produce the zero-emissions fuel...

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Your Safety at Risk: Smartphone Enabled Cars and Mirrorlink

04/09/2016

Researchers find vulnerabilities in cars connected to smartphones ...

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The Key to Circadian Sunflower Salutations

29/08/2016

Plant biologists discover how sunflowers use internal circadian timing to follow the sun...

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Sunshine for a Rainy Day: Storing Solar Energy

28/08/2016

An effective and low-cost solution for storing solar energy ...

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Warm or Wet? Where Does Europe’s Eldest Inhabitant Choose?

22/08/2016

Meet Adonis, Europe's oldest known living inhabitant ...

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Pass the Salt: Global Warming Increases Beachwater Salinity

15/08/2016

Global warming's next surprise: Saltier beaches ...

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