Lehigh Engineering researcher Arup SenGupta has developed a novel way to capture carbon dioxide from the air and store it in the “infinite sink” of the ocean.
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Form is (mal)function: Protein’s shape lets bacteria disarm it
Shigella bacteria can infect humans but not mice. A team can now explain why. Their findings may explain the multifariousness of a key weapon of our immune system.
New, exhaustive study probes hidden history of horses in the American West
Indigenous peoples as far north as Wyoming and Idaho may have begun to care for horses by the first half of the 17th Century, according to a new study by researchers from 15 countries and multiple Native American groups.
Scientists Aboard NOAA Research Vessel Collect Samples From Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt During Unprecedented Bloom
Opportunistic sampling shows geographic scope of distribution, offer some of the first sampling opportunities.
How Plants Adapt to Nitrogen Deficiency
Nitrogen as a fertilizer can increase yields.
VIMS Study: Sea-Level Rise is Double-Edged Sword for Carbon Storage
Coastal ecosystems are a natural storehouse for carbon, with policymakers looking to bays, marshes, and seaside forests as nature-based solutions to help combat climate change.
Deep ocean currents around Antarctica headed for collapse
Antarctic circulation could slow by more than 40 per cent over the next three decades, with significant implications for the oceans and the climate.
A reconstruction of prehistoric temperatures for some of the oldest archaeological sites in North America
Scientists often look to the past for clues about how Earth's landscapes might shift under a changing climate, and for insight into the migrations of human communities through time. A new study offers both by providing, for the first time, a reconstruction of prehistoric temperatures for some of the first...
How whale shark rhodopsin evolved to see, in the deep blue sea
A group of researchers discovered that the rhodopsin -- a protein in the eye that detects light -- of whale sharks has changed to efficiently detect blue light, which penetrates deep-sea water easily. The amino acid substitutions -- one of which is counterintuitively associated with congenital stationary night blindness in...
Bacterial Injection System Delivers Proteins in Mice and Human Cells
Researchers at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have harnessed a natural bacterial system to develop a new protein delivery approach that works in human cells and animals.