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Scientists collect eDNA samples in the extreme environment of the Arctic melting glaciers autonomously

What if there was a way to collect environmental DNA (eDNA) samples in extreme environments autonomously? And what if this method allowed the collection of more samples and to prevent risk of sample contamination? Portuguese researchers from the Inst.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagJan 10th, 2024

Greening the food supply chain: Developing sustainable food systems through interdisciplinary collaboration

Sustainability is a hot topic in just about every field that engages with the environment, including agriculture. An interdisciplinary group of researchers in UConn's College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources has published a paper outlinin.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

Saudi hajj pilgrims" deaths highlight how extreme heat kills

More than 1,000 people have died at this year's hajj pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia, an AFP tally showed on Thursday......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

Spectroscopic technique that singles out water molecules lying on the surface reveals how they relax after being excited

A more complete picture of how excited water molecules at an interface with air lose their energy has been uncovered by RIKEN scientists in a study published in the journal Nature Communications. This finding will be valuable for better understanding.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

Scientists discover surprising link between ancient biology and restricted human hair growth

University of Manchester scientists have linked one of the ways that cells respond to stressful conditions with restricted healthy hair growth......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

New photonic chip spawns nested topological frequency comb

Scientists on the hunt for compact and robust sources of multicolored laser light have generated the first topological frequency comb. Their result, which relies on a small silicon nitride chip patterned with hundreds of microscopic rings, appears in.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

Why scientists are intrigued by air in NASA"s Mars sample tubes

Atmospheric scientists get a little more excited with every rock core NASA's Perseverance Mars rover seals in its titanium sample tubes, which are being gathered for eventual delivery to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign. Twenty-four h.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

Citizen scientists gather eDNA in water samples for global biodiversity census

Kara Andres, a postdoctoral fellow with the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University in St. Louis, collected samples of water from Simpson Lake, in Valley Park, Mo., as part of a coordinated global effort to use environmental DNA—genetic.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

What actually makes avocados bad for the environment?

The soaring demand for avocados in Europe and North America has led to a trebling of global production in just over 20 years. However, this popular fruit is increasingly controversial because of the environmental impacts of farming and distributing t.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

Researchers uncover enzyme communication mechanism that could aid drug development

A mechanism that could help scientists harness enzymes for use in drug discovery has been discovered in a research breakthrough at the University of Birmingham......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

AI can help forecast toxic "blue-green tides"

A team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists plan to use artificial intelligence modeling to forecast, and better understand, a growing threat to water caused by toxic algal blooms. Fueled by climate change and rising water temperatures, these.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

Q&A: New method confines light inside an organic material to form a hybrid quantum state

A team of international scientists led by the University of Ottawa have gone back to the kitchen cupboard to create a recipe that combines organic material and light to create quantum states......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

Too young to be so cool: Lessons from three neutron stars

ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra spacecraft have detected three young neutron stars that are unusually cold for their age. By comparing their properties to different neutron star models, scientists conclude that the oddballs' low temperatures disq.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

Scientists find further evidence that climate change could make fungi more dangerous

A team of medical researchers and infectious disease specialists affiliated with multiple institutions in China, working with a pair of colleagues, one from Singapore, the other from Canada, has found evidence bolstering theories that suggest as the.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

Hidden partners: Symbiodolus bacteria found in various insect orders

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology report the discovery of at least six orders of endosymbiont Symbiodolus clandestinus, which lives inside insect cells. Using fluorescence in situ hybridization, they showed that Symbiodolus.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

First conclusive video evidence that a terrestrial leech species can jump

A new study presents video evidence that at least one species of terrestrial leech can jump, behavior that scientists have debated for more than a century. Researchers from the American Museum of Natural History, Fordham University, and City Universi.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

Scientists spot hidden companions of bright stars

Photographing faint objects close to bright stars is incredibly difficult. Yet, by combining data from ESA's Gaia space telescope with ESO's GRAVITY instrument on the ground, scientists managed just that. They took the first pictures of so far unseen.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

Climate change made deadly heat 35x more likely in US, Mexico, C. America

Deadly heat that blanketed the United States, Mexico and Central America recently was made 35 times more likely due to global warming, an international network of climate scientists said on Thursday......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

"Nature"s mirror": Climate change batters Albania"s butterflies

Bright yellow, black, red and blue, Alexanor butterflies once fluttered abundantly on southwestern Albania's flowery slopes. Now, like many related species, scientists say they are disappearing due to human impacts, including climate change......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

Scientists devise algorithm to engineer improved enzymes

Scientists have prototyped a new method for "rationally engineering" enzymes to deliver improved performance. They have devised an algorithm, which takes into account an enzyme's evolutionary history, to flag where mutations could be introduced with.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 20th, 2024

How glacier algae are challenging the way we think about evolution

People often underestimate tiny beings. But microscopic algal cells not only evolved to thrive in one of the most extreme habitats on Earth—glaciers—but are also shaping them......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 19th, 2024