As the SEI research team recounts in “Agricultural investment and rural transformation: a case study of the Makeni bioenergy project in Sierra Leone,” the Ebola outbreak in May 2014 ...
The discovery of a new species of human relative was announced today, 10 September 2015, by the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), the National Geographic Society and...
China is being encouraged by three industry groups to double the nation’s solar-power goal for 2020 to make up for shortfalls from nuclear and hydropower projects, while India’s inst...
So far, the remains of newborns to the aged have been retrieved from the cave and the researchers expect that many more bones remain in the chamber, which is nearly 100 feet undergro...
The bones of new species of human relative have reportedly been found in a burial chamber in South Africa. The so-called “Homo naledi” fossilized bones recovered from the Rising Star...
“South Australia has led the nation in renewable energy assets by setting policy frameworks and regulatory and approvals processes to provide greater consistency, transparency, and c...
In the tropics, the only dinosaurs present were small carnivores. In the new study, the authors focused on Chinle Formation rocks, which were deposited by rivers and streams between ...
Neptune and its moons. Outer (Irregular) Moons: Neptune’s irregular moons consist of the planet’s remaining satellites (including Triton). With the exception of Triton and Nereid, N...
We’ve found a new type of biosignature, said co-lead author Laurence Yeung, an assistant professor of Earth science at Rice University. Most atmospheric oxygen exists as O2, stable m...
Major expansion of solar installations in China and Japan and record investments in offshore wind projects in Europe helped propel global 2014 investments to $270 billion, a 17% surg...
Irvine, Calif., Sept. 7, 2015 - Astronomers from the University of California, Irvine and Baltimore’s Space Telescope Science Institute have generated the most accurate statistical d...
This phosphorus accounts for just 0.08% of the 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust that settles in the Amazon every year. Dust will affect climate and, at the same time, climate change...
The human-dominated geological epoch known as the Anthropocene probably began around the year 1610, with an unusual drop in atmospheric carbon dioxide and the irreversible exchange o...
Uplift and aridification of East Africa causing changes in vegetation has been considered a driver of human evolution Uplift associated with the Great Rift Valley of East Africa and...
A third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80% of current coal reserves globally should remain in the ground and not be used before 2050 if global warming is to stay belo...
Things have changed a lot in 30 years. These days we have software, services, social networks, and more to consider. Expanding the base of free software users and the free software m...
The LISA Pathfinder, the European spacecraft that houses the technology needed to detect the waves, will launch into space later this year — an event that will give researchers a cha...
The team have now continued the research to use nanodiamonds with single vacancies and to do the experiments in vacuum. This, Neukirch stated, is their long-term goal: to damp the di...
Semiconductor quantum dot emitting a stream of identical photons. With the help of a semiconductor quantum dot, physicists at the University of Basel have developed a new type of lig...
The fossilized reptile is at least 120 million years old – which makes it about 25 million years older than the previously known oldest specimen. We described a fossil sea turtle fro...
What he found was that not only were the simulations much closer to actual observations, but the high-resolution models were far better at reproducing intense storms, such as hurrica...
Credit: NASA/ESA/wikimedia The scientists behind the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) telescope, last year made an extraordinary claim that they had ...
Seismologists have created the first 3D visualisation of the Earth’s interior, showing the role that plumes of hot rock spewing out of the planet’s core have in the formation of volc...
It is well-established that the majority of bacteria in soil ecosystems live in dormant states due to nutrient deprivation, but the metabolic strategies that enable their survival ha...