Natural Sciences
Fish bones yield new tool for tracking coal ash contamination
DURHAM, N.C. — A Duke University study shows that trace elements in a fish’s ear bones can be used to ...
A damming trend
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Hundreds of dams are being proposed for Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. The negative social ...
The fauna in the Antarctica is threatened by pathogens humans ...
The new study, which detected bacteria from humans in the genus Salmonella and Campylobacter in Antarctic and Subantarctic marine birds, ...
An unknown group of planets found hiding in the dust
“Super-Earths” and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, new research by ...
Is Tehran’s ground sinking critically?
Iran has a water problem. The reserves in many groundwater basins there have been severely depleted. For the last forty ...
Traveling to the sun: Why won’t Parker Solar Probe melt?
This summer, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper into the solar atmosphere, than ...
Study finds deep subterranean connection between two Japan volcanoes
MIAMI–Scientists have confirmed for the first time that radical changes of one volcano in southern Japan was the direct result ...
The scent of a man: What odors do female blackbuck ...
At Tal Chhapar, a wildlife sanctuary in the heart of the Thar desert, a strange drama is staged twice every ...
VLT makes most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside ...
Using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s VLT , a team led by Thomas Collett from the University of Portsmouth in ...
Site of the next major earthquake on the San Andreas ...
Boulder, Colo., USA: Many researchers hypothesize that the southern tip of the 1300-km-long San Andreas fault zone (SAFZ) could be ...
