Plenty of scientists try and be environmentally conscious at home, but when they walk into the lab, a new ethos takes over — one driven by productivity, budgets and the drive to publish. now a group…
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Plenty of scientists try and be environmentally conscious at home, but when they walk into the lab, a new ethos takes over — one driven by productivity, budgets and the drive to publish. now a group…
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Divers have just located thousands of square miles of previously unknown kelp forests, thanks to the predictions of a computer model. Kelp was previously thought to live only in the shallows of…
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Biological control of invasive species is notoriously fraught with risk: It’s hard to know in advance if the biocontrol agent will stay nice and well-behaved, or become an even worse menace than the…
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One way of measuring humanity’s impact on the planet is by looking at how much of the earth’s annual biomass production–the total amount of new plant growth all over the world–we use up. Using the…
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It seems there’s no end to the brilliant tricks microbes can do. Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have discovered three types of bacteria that feed on radiation. The…
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Remnants of birth control pills that make it into our rivers and lakes could wreak havoc on fish, according to a study in Ontario. Researchers treated a lake with minute amounts of estrogen–the…
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Producing ethanol from the cellulose in plant material may end up being be a part of the solution to humanity’s energy woes, but right now the process is expensive, slow and inefficient. Now…
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A team of European scientists has discovered what may be an Earth-like planet, capable of sustaining life, orbiting a red dwarf star in the constellation Libra. The smallest planet yet discovered,…
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If the polar ice caps on Mars were to melt, the water would cover the entire surface of the planet to a depth of eleven metres. That’s the conclusion drawn from data sent back by the Mars Express…
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The government of Brazil has just released new maps that show where the Amazon is most at risk, and why. The maps shop the effects of deforestation, mining, cattle ranching and crop expansion. …
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