A recent Science Magazine feature blamed an underwater heat blob for exacerbating sea ice loss as it proclaimed what many Arctic scientists already know: Arctic sea ice is racing toward its demise. Even without the blob, ice levels were already catastrophically low. “There can be little doubt that the vast majority of Earth’s ice loss […]
Fast fashion has been called the second dirtiest industry in the world, next to big oil, and how we color our clothes is a large part of the problem. Now, Colorifix, a UK biotech company founded by Cambridge University scientists, has developed a new way to dye clothes that doesn’t harm the planet. Historically, natural […]
An unusual meal some 240 million years ago was preserved in stone, and now it’s changing the way scientists think about the eating habits of marine reptiles in the prehistoric ocean. In a paper published in iScience Thursday, scientists announced the discovery of a fossil of a five meter (approximately 15 foot) ichthyosaur with the […]
By Gregory Moore With massive fronds creating a luxuriously green canopy in the understory of Australian forests, tree ferns are a familiar sight on many long drives or bushwalks. But how much do you really know about them? First of all, tree ferns are ferns, but they are not really trees. To be a tree, […]
By Krissy Waite Bolstering activists’ demands to reduce plastic pollution worldwide, Arizona State University scientists on Monday presented their research on finding micro- and nanoplastics in human organs to the American Chemical Society. Greenpeace UK responded to the reporting on the study by calling to “massively reduce the amount of plastic” produced and used worldwide. […]
By Sean Fleming The Borneo rainforest is a treasure trove of biodiversity. It is home to 221 species of land-living mammals and 420 species of birds, not to mention 15,000 species of flowering plants and 3,000 species of trees. A team of scientists from Imperial College London, Universiti Malaysia Sabah and the South East Asia […]
The last Ice Age eliminated some giant mammals, like the woolly rhino. Conventional thinking initially attributed their extinction to hunting. While overhunting may have contributed, a new study pinpointed a different reason for the woolly rhinos’ extinction: climate change. The last of the woolly rhinos went extinct in Siberia nearly 14,000 years ago, just when […]
By Mark Mancini If weather is your mood, climate is your personality. That’s an analogy some scientists use to help explain the difference between two words people often get mixed up. In other words, weather exists in the short term. It’s the state of the atmosphere in a specific area during a limited period (think […]
One of the challenges of renewable power is how to store clean energy from the sun, wind and geothermal sources. Now, a new study and advances in nanotechnology have found a method that may relieve the burden on supercapacitor storage. This method turns bricks into batteries, meaning that buildings themselves may one day be used […]
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