In a new study, researchers report that temperatures during droughts have been rising faster than in average climates in recent decades, and they point to concurrent changes in atmospheric water vapor as a driver of the surge.
Daily Archives: August 1, 2018
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Studying the animals that live in the deep ocean is notoriously difficult, especially because the underwater equipment that exists for sampling them is designed for marine oil and gas exploration and frequently damages the delicate creatures they’re trying to capture. Now, researchers have created a soft, flexible sampling device that interacts […]
A new microscopy technique allows researchers to visualize liquids at the nanoscale level — about 10 times more resolution than with traditional transmission electron microscopy — for the first time.
Hollow molecular structures known as COFs suffer from an inherent problem: It’s difficult to keep a network of COFs connected in harsh chemical environments. Now, a team has used a chemical process discovered decades ago to make the linkages between COFs much more sturdy, and to give the COFs new […]
Biologists have gained new understanding of how Alzheimer’s disease begins, and how it might be halted using a current medication.
Baker’s yeast survive and grow after a drastic reorganization, not of their genes, but of the chromosome superstructures that house, protect and control access to their DNA code.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Reddit on Wednesday announced that it had suffered a data breach that could threaten the anonymity of a portion of the website’s many users. The company wrote in a post on its website […]
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Drug-resistant superbugs, already a big problem in hospitals, may have learned a new trick, researchers reported Wednesday. They may have evolved resistance to alcohol — the ingredient in hand sanitizers and disinfectants that […]