The EU has a significant amount of residual biomass available, more than 900 million tons per year, and 98% of this material ends up in landfill, incinerators, or rotting in open dumps, representing a loss of value, a source of pollution, and a risk to public health. The EU possesses the capability to convert bio-waste into a spectrum of bio-based ...

 By analyzing images and figurative objects created more than ten thousand years ago by societies spread between present-day Turkey and northern Syria, scholars from the University of Bologna have highlighted a series of visual codes with associative, repeated and interconnected rules.Did ancient Neolithic societies already develop a shared an...

 New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting it.New results published in Nature Communications show the algae are able to live off very few nutrients. And that they are able to store and save up energy. This makes it possible for them to colonize much mo...

 An international team of researchers, including members of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP, Université Paris Cité, CNRS) and the Natural History Museum of Vienna (NHMW) in Austria, has studied radon emissions from Martian and lunar meteorites. The study, published on 28 January in the journal Scientific Reports, aims to impro...

 On July 11, Minister of Economic Affairs Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut awarded prices to nine "AI Champions Baden-Württemberg 2024". One of the award winners is a researcher at the University of Stuttgart: Junior Professor Aamir Ahmad and his team are developing autonomous aerial robots for observing wild animals in the Wildcap project. The pr...

 Physics fellow Dr Fionagh Thomson will explore the potential risks of decommissioning satellites in the atmosphere in a project funded by the UK Space Agency. What happens to our satellites at the end of their working lives?  Thousands of satellites orbit the Earth at any given time. These spacecraft are constantly being taken out of commissi...

A new book summarizes the latest research on continuous cover forestry in boreal coniferous forests. The book is openly accessible to anyone interested in more knowledge about alternatives to clear-cutting.In a world where forests are expected to contribute in increasingly diverse ways – whether as habitats for many species of fungi, insects, birds...

 The most massive gravitational-wave source yet has been detected – a binary black hole merger, which produced a blast equal to the energy of eight suns, sending shockwaves through the universe.The most massive gravitational-wave source yet has been detected – a binary black hole merger, which produced a blast equal to the energy of eight Suns...

Genetic diversity is crucial to the ability of animals and plants to adapt to changes in the climate and environment. A major international meta-analysis, published in the journal Nature, shows that genetic diversity is declining globally. But there is hope – effective conservation measures can slow this trend.For a species to adapt to changes in i...

 Nature Africa marks 100 years since Australopithecus Africanus transformed our understanding of the origins of humans.On 7 February 1925, the scientific journal Nature published1 a paper by Raymond Dart, an anthropologist at Wits University who spent most of his working life describing the first hominin fossil to have been found, Australopith...

 New study investigates the 17-year discrepancy in projections for ozone recovery timelines, highlighting gaps in global reporting, compliance, and opportunities for action—as well as the ongoing impact of emissions from feedstocks and legacy equipment containing ozone-depleting substancesFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWashington, DC, December 2, 2024 –...

 South Africa's succulents – small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out between rocks in dry areas – are sought after by an increasingly international collector market.The popular Conophytum, Lithops and Tylecodon are part of the group of rare and aesthetically unique succulents which are now ...

 Hanyang University's Department of Biotechnology Professor Dong-Yoon Lee's research team announced on the 31st that they have developed an innovative 'self-breathing oxygen production platform' that can stably and spontaneously supply oxygen in the body for a long period of time by combining plant-derived chloroplasts and special peptides.Thi...

 Meiyi Ma, assistant professor of computer science at Vanderbilt, is leading research to develop what's considered the world's first Generative Artificial Intelligence training system for 911 call takers and dispatchers.The work is a collaboration between Ma's lab and the Nashville Department of Emergency Communications (DEC). Gautam Biswas, C...

 Fire has shaped our Earth for over 400 million years. The increasing impact and scale of wildfire is of major concern even in the United Kingdom where surprisingly between 2009 and 2016 there were over 260,000 wildfire incidents in England alone. In 2018 the United Kingdom was the country in Europe with the 3rd largest area burned by wildfire...

 Université Paris Cité continues to pursue its commitment to promoting science with and for society, notably through the participation of its researchers in public debates on major environmental and health issues. At a recent hearing before the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST), our resear...

DETROIT — A recently published study led by Wayne State University on a new approach to understanding chronic inflammation could lead to new advancements in the treatment of many debilitating medical conditions, including cancer.The study, "Distinct etiology of chronic inflammation – implications on degenerative diseases and cancer therapy," was pu...

 The molecular life sciences in Heidelberg represent a research focus of the university that enjoys particularly high national and international visibility. In order to understand the molecular mechanisms of physiological and pathological functions within cells and organisms, the researchers are closely connected with their local extra univers...

 The transportation sector is emitting more and more CO2 from cars, trucks, airplanes and shipping. To reverse this trend, more of the known solutions and technologies need to come into play.The transition to green transportation is making its mark in Denmark with more electric cars, electric charging stations, special parking spaces, and for ...

 Recent expeditions reveal that unique plants presumed to be extinct are still hanging on in the forest patches of Centinela, Ecuador, lauded as a hotspot for biodiversity.One of the largest modern plant extinction events was reported in the Andean hills of Ecuador 33 years ago. Yet, new research from a team of international ecologists, includ...