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Ecological Restoration Priorities Must Be Informed by Marginalized People

The United Nations has declared the 2020s as the decade of ecosystem restoration

Engineers Develop New Tool That Will Allow for More Personalized Cell Therapies

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities team has developed a new tool to predict and customize the rate of a specific kind of DNA editing called “site-specific recombination.

New Imaging Technique Allows Researchers to See Gene Expression in Brains of Live Mice in Real Time

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a new technique that allows scientists and engineers to visualize mRNA molecules in the brains of living mice

Energy Researchers Invent Chameleon Metal That Acts Like Many Others

Catalytic converter thefts from cars and trucks have skyrocketed nationwide in recent years.

'Sensing System' Spots Struggling Ecosystems

A new "resilience sensing system" can identify ecosystems that are in danger of collapse, research shows.

Coastal Glacier Retreat Linked to Climate Change

Researchers have developed a methodology to determine why coastal glaciers are retreating, and in turn, how much can be attributed to human-caused climate change.

Tiny Limbs and Long Bodies: Coordinating Lizard Locomotion

Using biological experiments, robot models, and a geometric theory of locomotion, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology investigated how and why intermediate lizard species, with their elongated bodies and short limbs, might use their bodies

Introducing GTGraffiti: The Robot That Paints Like a Human

Graduate students at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built the first graffiti-painting robot system that mimics the fluidity of human movement.

University of Bristol team shows squamates expanded up to 74 million years earlier than thought

Dating the expansion of a group of species when the fossil record is sparse is not a simple task, and can change as methods of analysis become more sophisticated.

Warmer Summers and Meltwater Lakes are Threatening the Fringes of the World’s Largest Ice Sheet

Antarctic supraglacial lakes have been linked to ice-shelf collapse and acceleration of inland ice flow.

Researchers Develop Methodology for Streamlined Control of Material Deformation

Researchers demonstrate that new physical theories provide precise predictions of the deformations of certain structures, revealing that a flexible mechanical structure is governed by some of the same math as electromagnetic waves and even black holes.

Rubber Material Holds Key to Long-lasting, Safer EV Batteries

Georgia Tech engineers have solved common problems (slow lithium-ion transport and poor mechanical properties) using rubber electrolytes.

Cyanobacteria Use the Lotus Effect

Water repellency as the first step to life on land a billion years ago

Shedding New Light on Dark Matter

A new analysis by a team of physicists offers an innovative means to predict ‘cosmological signatures’ for models of dark matter.

Meat Substitutes: Environment Does Not Motivate Consumption

Animal welfare and health aspects, on the other hand, promote the use of meat alternatives

"Growing End" of Inflammation Discovered

Researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Cologne observe how the danger sensor NLRP3 lengthens itself like a thread

Giant Marine Reptiles at 2,800 Meters Above Sea Level

Study by the University of Bonn shows that fossil finds from the High Alps come from three giants of the seas

Protein Folding in Times of Oxygen Deficiency

Study investigates process by which plants stabilize the shape of protein molecules

Molecule Boosts Fat Burning

Study identifies a new signaling molecule that increases the energy consumption of brown fat cells

Where Do the Ingredients for Your Chocolate, Smartphone and Clothes Come From?

Researchers have written a commentary in Nature about the need for research into global supply chain due diligence policy