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Plants & Animals Aug 23, 2023

Researchers use frog sounds to better understand whether an ecosystem is healthy

A recent study led by Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, with Griffith University and the Forestry Corporation of NSW, recorded the sounds of frogs near the riverbanks of the Murray-Darling Basin. The study is published ...

Space Exploration Aug 8, 2023

Chemical contamination on International Space Station is out of this world, study shows

Concentrations of potentially harmful chemical compounds in dust collected from air filtration systems on the International Space Station (ISS) exceed those found in floor dust from many American homes, a new study reveals.

Environment Jan 11, 2021

Consumer electronics have changed a lot in 20 years—systems for managing e-waste aren't keeping up

It's hard to imagine navigating modern life without a mobile phone in hand. Computers, tablets and smartphones have transformed how we communicate, work, learn, share news and entertain ourselves. They became even more essential ...

Materials Science Oct 2, 2020

'Digital chemistry' breakthrough turns words into molecules

A new system capable of automatically turning words into molecules on demand will open up the digitisation of chemistry, scientists say.

Mathematics Jul 14, 2020

How we 'hear' the shape of a drum

How is it that we can recognise the shape of an object despite only seeing a limited range of wave lengths? Radboud mathematician Walter van Suijlekom explains in a new publication in the journal Communications in Mathematical ...

Plants & Animals Jun 18, 2020

Bobwhites listen to each other when picking habitat

Northern bobwhites are attracted to a habitat based on whether other bobwhites are present there, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report. This phenomenon, called conspecific attraction, could ...

Plants & Animals May 26, 2020

What information is coded in bird alarm calls—a new study from Korea

Have you seen small birds nervously jumping up and down the branches and calling at a cat in a park? For a long time, scientists have been interested in what type of information about predators is coded in alarm calls; is ...

Plants & Animals May 11, 2020

Measuring noise reduction in the ocean during the pandemic

For decades, it has been assumed that a quieter ocean could help take the Salish Sea's southern resident killer whales off the endangered species list. But researchers lacked enough data to test this theory—until now.

Materials Science Oct 9, 2019

Three win Nobel in Chemistry for work on lithium-ion batteries

If you're reading this on a mobile phone or laptop computer, you might thank this year's three laureates for the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on lithium-ion batteries.

Space Exploration Jul 1, 2019

Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?

Many people who are old enough to have experienced the first moon landing will vividly remember what it was like watching Neil Armstrong utter his famous quote: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.". ...

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