Category: Science

Tracing features in a large 3D electron microscopy dataset reveals a zebrafish blood stem cell (in green) and its surrounding niche support cells, a group photo method that will help...

by Kerry Nice, Jason Thompson, Sachith Seneviratne and Mark Stevenson, University of Melbourne Unexplained NO2 (ppb) (top row) and PM10 (μg/m3) (bottom row) across cities in China, United States and...

Saint Helena's Plover. Credit: Rafael Armada, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. A new study examines how the geographic characteristics of the world's islands influence seasonal variation in the number...

The whale will be transported by refrigerated truck to a seawater basin in a Channel port for observation and treatment. A beluga whale stranded in the river Seine in northern...

Switching to a plant-based diet is one of the most effective ways for an individual to reduce their carbon footprint, experts from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say....

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There is growing alarm that Wall Street actors are increasingly buying up hospitals, nursing homes and other providers to make "outsized returns." These investors have little...

A collage of oak galls created by oak gall wasps. Credit: Kirsten Prior Climate change has led to warming temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, leading some insect species to expand...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research describes food systems designed not by the logic of growth such as efficiency and extraction, but by principles of sufficiency, regeneration, distribution, commons, and...

Image of Bathynomus yucatanensis. Credit: Dr Ming-Chih Huang, Journal of Natural History Researchers have identified a new species of Bathonymus, the famed genera of deep-sea isopods whose viral internet fame...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain For the second time in less than a month, a "1 in 30 million" lobster defied becoming dinner after being saved Monday from a Southern seafood...

MARLISAT partner Pixalytics [LINK: https://www.pixalytics.com/ ] in the UK has meanwhile been developing a machine learning algorithm able to detect plastic accumulation along beaches and ocean hotspots from satellite images....

Assembly line: A different chemical mixture is created in each of the droplets within the "Tubular flow reactor"—under exactly the same boundary conditions. Credit: Empa Nature strives for chaos. That's...

Belugas are a protected species that cannot survive long in fresh water. French marine experts will attempt Tuesday to rescue a beluga whale that swam up the Seine river and...

The shell of a dead American Crayfish lies on the dried riverbed of the Infant River Thames in Ashton Keynes. The UK's meteorological agency on Tuesday issued an "amber" warning...

A bumblebee on wild clary. Credit: Marta Rossi An online database developed at the University of Sussex which documents pollinator-plant interactions, could help the public understand how to plant for...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study from North Carolina State University explores the connection between hearing loss and dementia in geriatric dogs. The work could aid in both treatment...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research has found there are significant differences in the earnings between white and ethnic minority workers who are colleagues in the same workplace. The research,...

Credit: GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) Most of us have felt the shock from static electricity by touching a metallic object after putting on a sweater or walking...

Big brown bats can live up to 19 years. Credit: Brock and Sherri Fenton The most common bat in the United States, the big brown bat, boasts an unusually long...

Aging neutralizes sex differences in the brain in fruit flies. Credit: Thor Balkhed When male and female fruit flies age, their brains become desexualized. Age-related changes take place in both...