Could leaves help feed humanity after disaster?

UC researchers are investigating whether leaf protein and sugar extracted from plant fiber could help sustain people if major ...

TRACERS spacecraft maps solar energy's route into Earth using cusp electrons

Physicists led by the University of Iowa have documented in the finest detail to date how energy from the sun interacts with ...

Cellulose films match plastic performance while enabling recycling or biodegradation

A new cellulose-based material platform developed in Finland responds to tightening regulatory requirements and industry ...

Fusion reactors could be monitored for covert plutonium production

In the next few decades, many physicists are hopeful that nuclear fusion could become a realistic source of practically ...

Water molecule unlocks faster interfacial polymerization by lowering energy barrier

Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have achieved two major breakthroughs in ...

Q&A: Tracing the origins of supermassive black holes

Sarah Pappert is a Ph.D. candidate in astrophysics at the TUM School of Natural Sciences and conducts research at the Max ...

David Kipping has new take on the existence of advanced life in the universe and the numbers are not encouraging

Between the mid-1970s and early 1980s, two physicists, Michael Hart and Frank Tipler, published a controversial series of papers arguing that extraterrestrial intelligence didn't exist. As they argued ...

As wildfires increase in the West, so does suppression spending

Hotter, drier conditions in the western United States have led to a rise in wildfire activity that has damaged or destroyed ...

What happens to microplastics when swallowed? In earthworms, they do not leave the digestive tract

Globally, humanity now produces a staggering 450 million tonnes of plastic every year. From food and drink containers to ...

The Ghosts of the Mediterranean: What a rare great white shark sighting could reveal about a changing ocean

Headlines were made this week when scuba divers removing abandoned ghost nets from a shipwreck between Tunisia and Sicily ...
Opinion

Ocean monitoring is in trouble: It's up to Europe and Asia to avoid losing sight of the world's deep‑sea ecosystems

The world relies on a modest number of countries to keep watch over the ocean. That arrangement is starting to fail. Europe and Asia must now decide whether to let the system unravel, or to take it up ...

Dogs and humans are more alike than we thought, study finds

The same biological signals that help predict lifespan in humans also appear in dogs, according to new research from the Dog Aging Project—a finding that could help scientists better understand aging ...