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Bleached coral fragments recovered after contact with healthy, genetically identical neighbours in a laboratory study, according to Stanford and The Optimist Daily. The researchers observed…
ScienceMethane captured from agricultural waste, landfills and wastewater treatment can be processed into renewable natural gas for commercial use, offering businesses an alternative to…
ScienceAn epidemiologist who was on the ground during the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak examines the lessons that experience offers for the DRC.
ScienceThe brain’s ability to process sound more consistently may influence how well you’re able to discriminate between different sounds.
ScienceTchaikovsky and his pupil Sergei Taneyev were united in embracing European cultural influences in Russian classical music – they just disagreed on how to go about it.
ScienceThis Hubble image features the sparkling collection of stars named Messier 30 (M30), also called NGC 7099.
ScienceNew findings suggest that "food challenges" can help prevent children from being saddled with unnecessary allergy diagnoses.
ScienceIn the land of tigers, prey animals like deer and monkeys are often the first to sound the alarm when they sense the predator’s presence. Forest communities in Nepal, where the success of…
ScienceA half-built neutrino telescope on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea searched for cracks in one of physics' most basic invariances. It came up empty, but its limits rival those of…
ScienceMadagascar’s largest fruit bat is getting smaller, and hunting may be partly to blame, a recent study suggests. The Malagasy flying fox (Pteropus rufus) feeds mainly on fruit and nectar…
ScienceA stricken container ship shed tonnes of the tiny pellets on the west coast in May 2021. Today, locals are counting the cost to marine life and livelihoods On the beach in Pamunugama, on…
ScienceAn analysis of plant fossils preserved in amber from Myanmar revealed that the West Burma Block, a chunk of crust that broke off of Australia, seeded Southeast Asia's lush tropical forests.
ScienceHappy Eco News Protecting Forests from Disturbance Outperforms Restoration for Amazon Biodiversity, Study Finds A new Science study found that protecting forests from disturbance…
ScienceAlthough separated by centuries, these two epics pose dilemmas that separate the morality of the husband from the duty of the leader.
ScienceThe hackers compromised a laptop belonging to an IT engineer, according to Binance.
ScienceFour-year study warns destabilised marine food webs could jeopardise food security by 2050 Warming seas around the UK and the wider north-east Atlantic could destabilise marine food webs…
ScienceHappy Eco News Forest Landscape Restoration in Mozambique Launches in Nampula Province Forest landscape restoration in Mozambique has officially begun in Nampula Province, aiming to restore…
ScienceSocial media is awash with claims iron deficiency can be identified in the mirror by dark circles, breaking hair and dry skin. But is ‘ferritin face’ real? Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample…
ScienceEvents that deliver about half of global rainfall are getting shorter but more intense, with wide-ranging implications The world’s wettest rainstorms produce about half of the global annual…
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ScienceThe third-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea exposes an ancient piece of the ocean floor and hosts a clowder of cats.
ScienceControversial theory that Verica, who incited Emperor Claudius’s AD43 landing, was a woman could put a new spin on British history if true It was a moment that changed the course of British…
ScienceA new system identifies and corrects unreliable object descriptions stored in a robot’s memory, improving the robot’s ability to interact with its environment.
ScienceThe new film, out in IMAX, has viewers shaking in their seats from the volume. Why are some cinema screenings so loud?
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