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Big-City Coastal Whales Consume Millions of Microplastics Every Day

Whales in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf consume about three million microplastics per day, a new study has found.

Extent of Migration of Sooty Terns Presents Conservation Challenges

Sooty terns’ wide-ranging migration patterns present big challenges for conservationists working to understand and address a sharp population decline,

Social Media Firms Can Tackle Wildlife Trade

Wildlife trading on social media is a complex issue – but tech firms can take steps to tackle it, according to new research.

Does Selfishness Evolve? Ask a Cannibal

One of nature's most prolific cannibals could be hiding in your pantry, and biologists have used it to show how social structure affects the evolution of selfish behavior.

Corals May Need Their Predators' Poop

Fish that dine on corals may pay it forward with poop.

Teamwork Makes Light Shine Ever Brighter

Combined energy sources return a burst of photons from plasmonic gold nanogaps

Cancer ‘Guardian’ Breaks Bad with One Switch

Study shows how mutant protein clusters drive disease-causing aggregates

Camera Traps Reveal Newly Discovered Biodiversity Relationship

Data scientists analyze photos from 15 tropical rainforests

Bottling the World's Coldest Plasma

Rice University physicists have discovered a way to trap the world's coldest plasma in a magnetic bottle, a technological achievement that could advance research into clean energy, space weather and astrophysics.

Cerium Sidelines Silver to Make Drug Precursor

Rice lab’s process simplifies fluoroketone synthesis

Bioinformatics Tool Accurately Tracks Synthetic Dna

Rice computer scientists show benefits of bioinformatics with PlasmidHawk

Survey Indicates Bipartisan Support for Methane Emissions Regulation

Both Trump and Biden Voters Support Climate Change Policy at a Low Cost to Them, so Methane Emission Regulation May be a ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’ to Start

Does Driving Wear You Out? You Might Be Experiencing ‘Accelerousal’

Researchers Introduce New Factor to Explain Stress While Driving

Glass Nanopore Pulls DNA Like Spaghetti Through A Needle

The purely electrical technique captures cell-free DNA from the surface of a sample

Fourth Generation Of E-Cigarettes Is Not Harmless

UC Riverside study identified toxic elements in pod atomizers

Mystery Of Four-Stranded DNA Begins To Unravel

New strategies for cancer therapy may follow

Improved Catalyst May Translate to Petrochemical Production Gains

A New and Improved Zeolite Could Mean Greater Yield and Longer Lifecycles for Petrochemical Catalysts

Soldiers Expressed Their Personality and Emotions in Bureaucratic Battlefield World War One Diaries, Analysis Shows

Soldiers were able to express their personality and emotions in bureaucratic World War One battlefield diaries, analysis shows.

An Ancient Maya Ambassador’s Bones Show A Life Of Privilege And Hardship

Ajpach’ Waal forged an alliance between two dynasties but died in obscurity

Searching For Elusive Supersymmetric Particles

UC Riverside physicist on a team that conducted experiments at the Large Hadron Collider