Extreme wildfires have doubled in just 20 years—here’s the science
It feels like we are getting used to the Earth being on fire. Recently, more than 70 wildfires burned simultaneously in Greece. In early 2024, Chile suffered its worst wildfire…
It feels like we are getting used to the Earth being on fire. Recently, more than 70 wildfires burned simultaneously in Greece. In early 2024, Chile suffered its worst wildfire…
A sedated rhino is prepared to be tranquilized, before a hole is drilled into its horn and isotopes carefully inserted, at a rhino orphanage in the country’s northern province of…
X-ray image of the eROSITA bubbles. Credit: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license In 2020, astronomers discovered a large hourglass-shaped structure in or near the center of our Milky Way…
A new armadillo species, the Guianan long-nosed armadillo. Credit: Quentin Martinez (quentinmartinez.fr/) The coolest news this week concerns anthropological research combining state-of-the-art imaging technology, medical diagnostics, genetics and sociology. We…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain NASA’s Mars InSight Lander may be resting on the Red Planet in retirement, but data from the robotic explorer is still leading to seismic discoveries on…
Artist impression of decorated tailored clothing in the Upper Paleolithic. Credit: Mariana Ariza A team of researchers led by an archaeologist at the University of Sydney are the first to…
Concept of angular ptychographic imaging with closed-form method (APIC) and comparison between the reconstruction process of APIC and Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM). Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49126-y For hundreds…
Cloning and functional characterization of TaAPA2. Credit: Science China Press This study is reported by Shisheng Chen’s group at the National Key Laboratory of Wheat Improvement, Peking University Institute of…
A picture of one of the crops that the research center is investigating in the search for climate genes. The plant is called Brachypodium and is typically used as a…
A pulsed laser co-propagates with the electron beam through the MLS U125 undulator and imposes an energy modulation. The same undulator serves as a radiator on the following passes of…