Researchers build high-performing hybrid solar energy converter
Tulane University researchers are part of a team of scientists who have developed a hybrid solar energy converter that generates electricity and steam with...
Study: Decadal predictability of North Atlantic blocking and the NAO
Climate in different parts of the world is undergoing a warming trend, but also significant interdecadal variations that compensate, or exacerbate the former. These...
Study: Fish reef domes a boon for environment, recreational fishing
In a boost for both recreational fishing and the environment, new UNSW research shows that artificial reefs can increase fish abundance in estuaries with...
Study: Dangerous parasite controls host cell to spread around body
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have discovered new information about how a dangerous parasite takes control of a patient's cells as it...
Study: How nutrient-starved cells recycle internal components
The idea of the cell as a city is a common introduction to biology, conjuring depictions of the cell's organelles as power plants, factories,...
New study of oldest light confirms age of the universe
Just how old is the universe? Astrophysicists have been debating this question for decades. In recent years, new scientific measurements have suggested the universe...
Scientists convert female mosquitoes to nonbiting males with implications for mosquito control
Virginia Tech researchers have proven that a single gene can convert female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes into fertile male mosquitoes and identified a gene needed...
Study: World population likely to shrink after mid-century
Improvements in access to modern contraception and the education of girls and women are generating widespread, sustained declines in fertility, and world population will...
Major new paleoclimatology research shows global warming has upended 6,500 years of cooling
Over the past 150 years, global warming has more than undone the global cooling that occurred over the past six millennia, according to a...
Study: A Raspberry Pi-based virtual reality system for small animals
The Raspberry Pi Virtual Reality system (PiVR) is a versatile tool for presenting virtual reality environments to small, freely moving animals (such as flies...