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A New Hope For Bleached Coral Reefs?

26/05/2016

UN report finds parts of coral reef ecosystems may survive in barely known deeper environments...

Amazon River Plume points to new Reef Discovery

25/04/2016

Scientists discover new reef system at mouth of Amazon River ...

Plants Eat Carbon Dioxide – So Could More CO2 Fix Climate Change?

21/04/2016

Is climate change a self-healing wound? Choosing crops for carbon dioxide reduction...

Hoops or Alphabetti? Tracing the evolutionary history of wheat, for better pasta

09/04/2016

Wild and landrace varieties along with genetic diversity are the keys to improving wheat's nutritional value...

What’s the Point of Men? The Twofold Cost of Sex

01/04/2016

The existence of males is of enormous cost to a species, so why does nature tolerate them?...

No Fracking Wonder. Earthquakes linked to Hydraulic Fracturing

31/03/2016

Fracking - not wastewater disposal - linked to most induced earthquakes in Western Canada ...

How to Make Friends, Influence People, and Get Given Fish: Antarctic Birds Learn to Recognize Humans

28/03/2016

How brown skuas, which evolved and lived in human-free habitats, recognized individual humans just after 3 or 4 visits...

Peaty Pinots and Gamay in the Gloaming. Global Warming Moves Wine Regions North

24/03/2016

Global warming pushes wines into uncharted terroir ...

Useless Old Holiday Photos? Not quite. Tourist Snaps Show a Rise in Seabirds

23/03/2016

Old tourist photos show a rise in seabirds over the last century ...

Can the Clean Fuel Movement Ketch Up With Florida’s Tomato Battery?

18/03/2016

Creative thinkers in Florida develop an innovative use for waste material - the tomato battery...

The Other Kind of Twitterstorm. Using Social Media for Natural Disaster Assessment

14/03/2016

Could social networks used in the assessment of damage caused by natural disasters?...

A Lesson in Hubris? Using Statistics to Predict Extreme Waves

13/03/2016

Crunching the stats to predict ship-crunching ocean events...

No Mod Cons, But a Spectacular View. Where our Human Ancestors Lived

12/03/2016

Scientists piece together an early human habitat for the first time...

What Colour is Your Ark? Global Warming Makes the Wet Wetter, and the Dry Wetter Too

11/03/2016

With global warming, not only do the wet places get wetter, but the driest areas get wetter too...

Got some spinifex on ya, cock? Bio-Engineering Superthin Condoms

13/02/2016

Fibers from the Australian native spinifex grass are being used to improve latex that could be used to make condoms as thin as a human hair without any loss in strength...

What do People Think About Climate Engineering? The answer may surprise you

09/02/2016

New tool for gauging public opinion reveals skepticism of climate engineering ...

Breaking: New Zealand Invaded (by Little Penguins)

07/02/2016

New Zealand's little penguins are recent Australian invaders ...

Why Spiderman Can’t Climb Walls

20/01/2016

There is a size limit to sticky footpads as an evolutionary solution to climbing...

Good goods: Why Small Males Might Be More Attractive

11/01/2016

Small males have more sex appeal, new research shows ...

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Caring Canines. Do Dogs Do Christmas Too?

23/12/2015

Dogs truly behave prosocially toward other dogs....

Smart Selection: Evolution is Smarter Than We Thought

21/12/2015

Research shows that it is possible for evolution to exhibit some of the same intelligent behaviours as learning systems...

Tall Tales and Freak Waves – The Science of the Sneaker Set

17/12/2015

Oceanic Freak waves hit without warning, new research shows ...

Your Magneto-Jet Awaits, Sir. Powerful magnetic fields in Nature

02/12/2015

Simulation shows key to building powerful magnetic fields ...

All in the Pipes: Birds sing the same way we do

30/11/2015

The very same physical mechanisms are at play when a bird sings and a human speaks....

Seismic Surveys Stop Sea Turtles Shagging

29/11/2015

Marine airgun noise could cause turtle trauma ...

Higher Crop Yields: The Famine-Busting Breakthrough You’ve Never Heard Of

19/11/2015

High yield crops a step closer in light of photosynthesis discovery ...

Raining Blood: The Simple Explanation THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE!

15/11/2015

Biological science does have an explanation for blood rain, but it's not as good as the eery ones we can imagine....

Not So Dumb-o. Leafblower Elephants Get the Goodies

08/11/2015

Elephants may use trunks like 'leaf blowers' to obtain inaccessible food ...

Getting an Edge in Business – The Way of the Bee

17/10/2015

Buzzing bees can't resist caffeinated nectar....

Forest Vines Have Carbon Capture All Tied Up

13/10/2015

Smithsonian scientists say vines strangle carbon storage in tropical forests ...

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