CO₂ worsens wildfires by helping plants grow, model experiments show
By fueling the growth of plants that become kindling, carbon dioxide is driving an increase in the severity and frequency of wildfires, according to a UC Riverside study.
Fires pose growing worldwide threat to wildland-urban interface
Fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are becoming more common around the globe, a trend that is likely to continue for at least the next two decades, new research finds.
Researchers reveal oceanic black carbon sink effect driven by seawater microdroplets
Pyrogenic carbon is widely produced during the incomplete combustion of biomass and fossil fuels on land. About one-third of pyrogenic carbon is exported to the ocean by rivers, and thereinto, the refractory fraction becomes the source of oceanic black carbon
First Fractal Molecule in Nature Assembles Into a Sierpinski Triangle And We Don't Know Why
It's accidentally beautiful!
Advice to 'Play Tetris' After a Traumatic Event May Have Some Basis in Science
A 'cognitive vaccine'.
Record-Breaking Ocean Heat Triggers 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event
Clear evidence of the climate crisis.
How a Quantum Drum Could Change Everything About the Internet
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new way to create quantum memory: A small drum can store data sent...
Can Exercise Truly Reverse Aging? New Research Shows Reduction in Age-Related Fat
Scientists have found that a specific kind of fat builds up in tissues as they age, and that exercise can reverse this process. A team...
X-Ray Eyes Reveal Hidden Winds of Sun-Like Stars for the First Time
Astrophysicists Quantify the Mass Loss of Stars via Their Stellar Winds An international research team led by a researcher from the University of Vienna has...
Quantum Leap: Rice Physicists Unlock Flash-Like Memory for Future Qubits
Rice find could hasten development of nonvolatile quantum memory. Rice University physicists have discovered a phase-changing quantum material — and a method for finding more...
2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope
The 2,000-foot-wide asteroid 2013 NK4 just made its closest approach to Earth in recorded history, sailing by at about eight lunar distances. You can still see the massive rock with a backyard telescope.
A Rare Event Gave This Algae an Organelle That Traps And Uses Nitrogen
It joins an exlusive club.