Wildfires lock away a ‘considerable amount of carbon’ for centuries, or even millennia
I'll admit it -- I did not expect this.
Unusual hepatitis B virus found in shrews could help us tackle chronic hepatitis B
"Since the virus cannot infect human liver cells, it is highly unlikely that the virus can infect people."
The recent heatwave in Europe between 1.5 to 3.0 °C hotter due to man-made climate heating
Things definitely heated up.
Fossil Friday: tiny tooth belonged to the smallest monkey ever found
Size isn't everything.
Reducing air pollution levels won’t cause a spike in climate heating
So let's clean it up.
New “bone spackling” that can fix injuries with a simple injection shows promise in mice
Sticks and stones may break your bones but this thing will fix'em right up.
Air pollution levels rise by 30% in India as farmers align to new groundwater depletion policy
On one hand, northwest India needs to tackle groundwater depletion. On the other hand, air pollution claimed the lives of...
Discovery of new “don’t eat me protein” points the way to effective cancer therapy
Take away the proteins, and our immune systems decimate cancers.
Birmingham University researchers extract cancer-killing drug from common flower
"It's a clear demonstration that parthenolide has the potential to progress from the flowerbed into the clinic," they report.
The price of ivory is up 1,000% since global ban on ivory trade, but is slowly decreasing
The authors studied where ivory is sold and for how much -- in a bid to nip poaching at the...
Infants expect leaders to right wrongs, and are surprised when they don’t
We have an instinctive understanding that The Boss should fix injustice in the group.
Hospitals in Europe are contributing to the spread of extremely drug-resistant bacteria
However, simple infection control procedures can go a long way to mitigate the risk.
NASA finds new exoplanet that orbits three different suns
The planet is so close to its host star that it only has a 5.36 day-long orbit. At this distance,...
The Vikings’ Bronze Age relied on imported metal, new study finds
Trade makes us all richer!
Researchers identify neurons that shut down rewards and motivation in the brains of mice
"We might think of different scenarios where people aren't motivated like depression and block these neurons and receptors to help...
London’s waterways found to contain antibiotic-resistant bacterial genes
"This shows that more research is needed into the efficiency of different water treatment methods for antibiotic removal, as...
Climate change may bring “megadroughts” back to the US Southwest
The American Southwest was left bone-dry between the 9th and 15th centuries by about a dozen megadroughts; they could be...
Researchers map the genetic mechanisms that makes hydras ‘immortal’
"All organisms share the same injury response pathway but in some organisms like hydra, it leads to regeneration," the team...
Pufferfish spines and the hair on your head are governed by the same set of genes
"It just blows me away that regardless of how evolutionarily-different skin structures in animals are, they still use the same...
