Category: Science

Coral reefs, nurturing hubs of marine biodiversity, are grappling with mounting threats from environmental shifts. Traditional monitoring techniques, often laborious and invasive, are proving inadequate in the face of rapid ecological changes. Coral reefs, nurturing hubs of marine biodiversity, are grappling with mounting threats from environmental shifts. Traditional monitoring techniques, often laborious and invasive, are proving…

Babies born with weights less than 5 lbs 8 ounces (2,500 grams), can face a host of health challenges and an increased risk for chronic health problems like diabetes and heart disease later in life. Now, for the first time, researchers at The University of New Mexico have linked industrial air pollution to the state’s…

Feeding livestock today is not a matter of flinging some hay or silage in a stall and hoping for the best. Feeding livestock today is not a matter of flinging some hay or silage in a stall and hoping for the best. Biotechnology Agriculture Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories

Roughly 2 million species live in the world’s oceans. But scientists have only described a mere 10% of them. With extinctions on the rise and biodiversity threatened worldwide, many species are in danger of vanishing before researchers can identify them or fully grasp the benefits they provide. Roughly 2 million species live in the world’s oceans….

The country’s south received three months’ rain in two weeks. Global warming has made such deluges twice as likely as before, scientists said. The country’s south received three months’ rain in two weeks. Global warming has made such deluges twice as likely as before, scientists said. Global Warming, Floods, Rain, El Nino Southern Oscillation, International Federation of…

What do Houston, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago have in common? The answer is dense population, high traffic volume and air quality that fails to meet ozone standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Those circumstances made each city a prime candidate for a University of Houston study assessing the impact of vehicle…

When companies tout the simplicity of their products, they may unknowingly invite customer dissatisfaction, new University of Oregon research finds. When companies tout the simplicity of their products, they may unknowingly invite customer dissatisfaction, new University of Oregon research finds. Economics & Business Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories

Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University (SBU), and their collaborators have uncovered new details of the reversible assembly and disassembly of a platinum catalyst. The new understanding may offer clues to the catalyst’s stability and recyclability. Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony…

Astatine is one of the least-studied elements of the periodic table, because all isotopes of astatine are unstable, with the longest half-life barely exceeding 8 hours. Thus, only radiochemists at the production facilities (limited worldwide) can have access to this element to study its properties in a timely manner. Most of these isotopes undergo alpha…

Never before have there been so many armed conflicts across the globe. This has been shown by new statistics from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP, at Uppsala University. In 2023, the number of conflicts involving states totaled 59, the highest number ever since the data collection’s starting point in 1946. Previous peaks were seen…