How do coconuts get their water?
Coconut trees are iconic plants found across the world's tropical regions. They're called "nature's supermarket" or the "tree ...
KiDS dataset doesn't shake up cold dark matter model after all, say researchers
Data from 41 million galaxies does not shake up the standard cosmological model after all. To that conclusion, to their own ...
Surprising number of environmental pollutants found in hedgehogs
Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is ...
Lunar polar regions could have microbes, modeling study suggests
Could microbes survive in the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) of the moon? This is what a recent study presented at the ...
Sampling the plumes of Jupiter's volcano moon, Io
What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) formation and evolution? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...
A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb
One of the first verified predictions of general relativity is the gravitational deflection of starlight. The effect was ...
A classification of drugs based on their environmental impact
Scientists at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and University center Unisanté classified 35 commonly used drugs in ...
NASA's SPHEREx takes first images, preps to study millions of galaxies
NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...
Microalgae and bacteria team up to convert carbon dioxide into useful products
Scientists have spent decades genetically modifying the bacterium Escherichia coli and other microbes to convert carbon dioxide into useful biological products. Most methods require additional carbon ...