Tag: ENN

Bamboo, palm, and banana trees look and act like trees, but are actually closer to grasses in how they grow because—unlike trees—their stems do not grow wider over time. 

Calcifying plankton quietly regulate the Earth’s thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon. 

Common dolphins are among the ocean’s most abundant mammals, but they are living shorter lives in the North Atlantic, according to a new study published Oct. 10 in Conservation Letters.

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from its centre.

Marine algae use a unique pigment, siphonein, to shield photosynthesis from excess light.

Two large-payload unmanned aircraft have joined the fleet of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ drone industry development program.

A powerful climate pattern that dictates weather worldwide is projected to undergo a dramatic transformation due to greenhouse warming, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

A microscopic organism that thrives in the most inhospitable environments on the planet could be a serious weapon against costly and dangerous microbes, including one that decimates apple and pear orchards.

Iceland, one of the last places on Earth to be free of mosquitoes, recorded its first sighting this month. 

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered an important phenomenon beneath the Arctic sea ice that was previously thought impossible.