Data from the shipboard Automatic Identification System (AIS) can provide information about global fishing activity, including illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Fishing vessels may disable their AIS devices, but a new analysis identifies intentional disabling events in commercial fisheries and shows that, while some disabling events may be for legitimate...
This simple material could scrub carbon dioxide from power plant smokestacks
A simple material can separate carbon dioxide from other gases that fly out of the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants. It lacks the shortcomings that other proposed carbon filtration materials have, rivaling designer compounds in its simplicity, overall stability and ease of preparation.
Bacterial sensors send a jolt of electricity when triggered
Scientists and engineers have developed programmable bacteria that sense contaminants and release an electronic signal in real time.
Climate change could trigger the Congo peatlands to release billions of tons of carbon
New research reveals that the world's largest tropical peatland turned from being a major store of carbon to a source of damaging carbon dioxide emissions as a result of climate change thousands of years ago. Around the time that Stonehenge was built, 5,000 years ago, the climate of central Congo...
Violent Supershear Earthquakes Are More Common Than Previously Thought
Powerful supershear earthquakes, once considered rare, are much more common than previously thought, according to a study led by UCLA geophysicists and published today in Nature Geoscience.
Spritacular: NASA’s New Citizen Science Project to Capture Elusive Upper Atmospheric Electrical Phenomena on Camera
A flash of lightning, and then – something else.
Clear Window Coating Could Cool Buildings Without Using Energy
As climate change intensifies summer heat, demand is growing for technologies to cool buildings.
Why fish look down when they swim
New simulations show that fish look downward when they swim because the stable riverbed below them provides more reliable information about their swimming direction and speed.
Photosynthesis: Auxiliary factor ensures efficient energy production
Biologists demonstrate how the auxiliary factor CGL160 contributes to the synthesis of crucial parts of the photosynthetic machinery.
Cracking the enigma of how plant sperm is compacted
A research team have discovered a mechanism of flowering plant sperm compaction and gathered clues as to why it is required.