Environment
Future Mosquito Activity is Predicted by Climate Factors
Mosquitoes currently kill over a million people each year. Malaria, dengue fever, Rift Valley fever, and the Zika virus are all spread by these venomous…
News
Physics
Future Photovoltaic Building Blocks
Using photovoltaic technology to directly harvest energy from sunlight has become an essential component of future global energy production. Although silicon-based inorganic materials continue to…
Technology
Researchers Create New 3D-printable Wearable Bioelectronics Inks
A group of researchers has created a new class of biomaterial inks that mimic the native properties of highly conductive human tissue, similar to skin,…
Physics
Free Electrons and Photons are combined in a New Quantum Technology
A collaboration of Swiss and German researchers demonstrated for the first time the controlled generation of electron-photon pair states using integrated photonic circuits on a…
Physics
Researchers Improve the Sensitivity and Speed of Raman Microscopy
Researchers created a label-free, non-invasive Raman spectroscopy method that can acquire microscopic images of biological samples and identify a wide range of biomolecules with unprecedented…
Environment
Impact of Atlantic Air on India’s Food and Water Supplies
Winter rain and snow in the western Himalayas could vary by nearly 50% due to North Atlantic atmospheric conditions. The amount of winter rain and…
Physics
Considering the Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing on Microearthquakes
The majority of earthquakes happen along plate boundary zones, where one tectonic plate collides with another. Because the large amount of relative motion between the…
Environment
Plastic Pollution Research is Expanding Inland
The millions of tons of plastic floating around the world’s oceans have recently received a lot of media attention. However, plastic pollution may pose a…
Zoology
Which Animals are most resilient to Climate Change?
A new study looks at how various mammals react to climate change. Animals that live for a long time and/or have fewer offspring, such as…
Plants and Animals
A Self-pollinating Plant Loses Genetic Variation Rapidly
An experimental study discovered that without bumble bees, a flowering plant that can self-pollinate lost significant genetic variation in only nine generations. An experiment discovered…
Environment
Why do Corals Glow Even Deep in the Sea?
According to a new Tel Aviv University study conducted in collaboration with the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences…
Environment
‘Win-win’ Solutions for Human Health and Ecosystem Conservation
The study examines academic literature to identify 46 interventions that would benefit both humans and the environment. A comprehensive review of academic papers and reports…
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