Mercury concentrations in tree rings may enable trees to be 'witnesses' of illegal gold mining activities in the Amazon
For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold. Today, the precious metal is just as sought after, but the ...
Q&A: Scientists uncover process behind plastic's dangerous fragment shedding
The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus—just the ...
Multiple antibiotic resistance is auxiliary to bacterial fitness and adaptability, study shows
Could a gene regulatory network in gut microbes have evolved its elaborate and tightly regulated molecular machinery only to ...
Revealing the rhythms of ancient Arabia: Music connected cultures in the prehistoric Arabian Gulf
Archaeologists have analyzed a pair of copper cymbals from Bronze Age Oman, suggesting a shared musical tradition connected ...
Understanding who is most likely to fall for fake news is first step toward strategies for counteracting misinformation
A global study of more than 66,000 participants has revealed which groups of people are most susceptible to misinformation.
An invasive frog in the Marshall Islands is displacing native species and threatening local ecosystems
Biologists from The University of Texas at Arlington are the first to discover an invasive frog—the greenhouse frog—in the ...
Nacre-like ceramic-metal composite achieves superior strength and mass-production potential
Mollusks possess sturdy protective shells, thanks to their internal nacre structure. Nacre, the natural nanocomposite, ...
Marine litter: What biodegradable plastics can do to solve the problem
For more than two years, the UN member states have been trying to agree on a plastics treaty that includes globally binding ...
Over 90% of women in sex work see it as their only means of survival, says study
Researchers from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) specializing in criminal law and criminology have published a ...
Gateway lunar space station's first habitation module arrives in U.S.
From the mountains of Turin to the deserts of Arizona, a core element of Gateway, humanity's first lunar space station, is ...
Bird species that do well in urban areas are more colorful and less brown, study finds
Researchers at the University of Granada and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence have demonstrated a link ...
RNA transformed into biosensor for detecting health-related chemicals
Scientists have transformed RNA, a biological molecule present in all living cells, into a biosensor that can detect tiny ...