After an extremely wet October, southeast Australia continued to see heavy rainfall in November 2022.
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New Study Provides a Unique Resource for Understanding How Environmental Exposures in Early Life Affect our Health
Researchers now have a unique resource for identifying new biomarkers of environmental exposures in early life and understanding their health effects.
Exploring the deep: Drones offer new ways to monitor sea floor
Researchers have developed a novel method for measuring the earth's crust on the seafloor. A lightweight geodetic measurement device was mounted on a sea-surface landing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The mobility of this new system will enable rapid, efficient collection of real-time deep seafloor information, which is critical for understanding...
Small modular reactor waste analysis report
Small modular nuclear reactors, which offer greater flexibility and lower upfront cost than large nuclear reactors, have both some advantages and disadvantages when it comes to nuclear waste generation.
Solid salamander: Prehistoric amphibian was as heavy as a pygmy hippo
Scientists have calculated the body mass of two ancient amphibians.
Toxins force construction of ‘roads to nowhere’
Toxins released by a type of bacteria that cause diarrheal disease hijack cell processes and force important proteins to assemble into 'roads to nowhere,' redirecting the proteins away from other jobs that are key to proper cell function, a new study has found.
Rapid fluctuations in oxygen levels coincided with Earth’s first mass extinction
Rapid changes in marine oxygen levels may have played a significant role in driving Earth's first mass extinction, according to a new study.
Social Bees Travel Greater Distances for Food Than Their Solitary Counterparts, Study Finds
The findings, published today in Current Biology, show that social bees venture further for pollen and nectar.
Fruit flies use corrective movements to maintain stability after injury
Fruit flies can quickly compensate for catastrophic wing injuries, researchers found, maintaining the same stability after losing up to 40% of a wing. This finding could inform the design of versatile robots, which face the similar challenge of having to quickly adapt to mishaps in the field.
Dietary change starves cancer cells, overcoming treatment resistance
A dietary change could be a key to enhancing colon cancer treatment, a new study finds. Researchers found in cells and in mice that a low-protein diet blocked the nutrient signaling pathway that fires up a master regulator of cancer growth.