Researchers from the University of Turku have described seven new fern species from the rainforests of tropical America. Many of the species were uncovered as the byproduct of ecological research: th… [+5234 chars]
Ethical approval All experimental animal care was performed in accordance with institutional and national guidelines and regulations. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Animal Care… [+5164 chars]
A collaboration including researchers from Kobe University, University of Tokyo and Tohoku University has successfully identified and disrupted genes in the yeast Pichia pastoris (1) in order to incr… [+5799 chars]
As the largest predatory fish on Earth, great white sharks are already impressive, armed with up to 300 serrated teeth and weighing up to 5,000 pounds. Now, new research adds more intrigue to the oce… [+6532 chars]
Soft matter is an important class of materials that typically consists of colloidal particles and/or polymers in a liquid medium. For certain compositions, these types of systems tend to (micro-)phas… [+3787 chars]
From laser beams and wooden satellites to galactic tow-truck services, start-ups in Japan are trying to imagine ways to deal with a growing environmental problem: space debris. Junk like used satell… [+4175 chars]
Members of the LZ team in the water tank after installation of the outer detector. (Image credit: Matthew Kopust, Stanford Underground Research Facility)The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment has… [+9810 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope is less than a week away from delivering its first science images on July 12, 2022. The moment marks the beginning of a new era in extragalactic exploration that is, … [+6953 chars]
Among many materials, dielectric elastomers (DE)lightweight materials with high elastic energy densityhave been of particular interest to be used in artificial muscles. That’s because they have optim… [+3482 chars]
Rapid bursts of radio waves from millions to billions of light-years away could be employed as probes to study halos of difficult-to-see hazy gas encircling closer galaxies. These pulses, known as f… [+3498 chars]
ByFrontiersJuly 8, 2022 New research finds that molecular clouds are loaded with key precursors for life on Earth. This image is of the Pigtail Molecular Cloud. Credit: Keio University, NAOJ Key pr… [+8623 chars]
Although the Earth has long been studied in detail, some fundamental questions still have to be answered. One of them concerns the formation of our planet, about whose beginnings researchers are stil… [+4369 chars]
