3,284 articles frome SEPTEMBER 2021

Corals roll with the punches

Corals may be able to cope with climate change in the coming decades better than previously thought -- but will still struggle with rapidly intensifying rates of climate change.

Animals ‘shapeshifting’ in response to climate crisis, research finds

Warm-blooded animals are changing beaks, legs and ears to adapt to hotter climate and better regulate temperatureAnimals are increasingly “shapeshifting” because of the climate crisis, researchers have said.Warm-blooded animals are changing their physiology to adapt to a hotter climate, the scientists found. This includes getting larger beaks, legs and ears to better regulate their body...

The warming climate is causing animals to 'shapeshift'

Climate change is not only a human problem; animals have to adapt to it as well. Some "warm-blooded" animals are shapeshifting and getting larger beaks, legs, and ears to better regulate their body temperatures as the planet gets hotter. Bird researcher Sara Ryding of Deakin University in Australia describes these changes in a review published September 7th in the journal Trends in Ecology and...

Tea time gets flavor boost from thin film, impure water

Getting your day started sometimes feels like it requires magic, but making a good cup of tea requires a little science. In Physics of Fluids, researchers from ETH Zurich describe how they applied the science of rheology to the seemingly quaint purpose of improving the quality of a cup of black tea.

‘You’re not geriatric at 35’: women on the eggs, embryos and sperm storage limit increase

The rise to a 55-year limit has been welcomed, but some have concerns about the impact on childrenThe 10-year storage limit for freezing embryos, eggs and sperm will be replaced with a right for individuals or couples to keep them for up to a maximum of 55 years.While being a welcome change for many, there are concerns about whether the process is affordable for all and the impact on children of...

Rocket Flight to Sharpen NASA's Study of the Sun

Portal origin URL: Rocket Flight to Sharpen NASA's Study of the SunPortal origin nid: 473726Published: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 - 10:24Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: SDO’s EVE instrument uses sounding rockets for calibration. During roughly 15-minute flights, these suborbital rockets carry an EVE duplicate about 180 miles above Earth, where it...

No 10 not ruling out ‘firebreak’ lockdown if Covid cases rise

Government denies plan for October half-term lockdown but says option remains open if NHS overwhelmedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDowning Street has not ruled out a “firebreak” lockdown as a last resort if the NHS were to be overwhelmed by Covid cases in England, but denied there were plans for one during October’s half-term school holiday.With cases expected...

A Climate Change-Induced Landslide Is Wreaking Havoc on Denali National Park

For decades, the rangers at Denali National Park in Alaska were easily winning their battle against a slow-moving landslide underneath the park’s only road. Now, due in part to the effects of climate change, they are losing very badly. This summer, the National Parks Service has been frantically dropping 100 dump-trucks-worth of gravel every week on the top of the Pretty Rocks Landslide in...

Living sensors probe mysteries of the gut

Research into the human gut and the microbes key to its work—the gut microbiome—has boomed over the last decade or so because scientists have learned that the overall system has a much larger impact on our bodies than previously thought. Imbalances of chemicals produced in the gut, for example, have been linked to diseases including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, and even hyperactivity in kids....

Physicists engineer new property out of 'white' graphene

Ultrathin materials made of a single layer of atoms have riveted scientists' attention since the discovery of the first such material—graphene—about 17 years ago. Among other advances since then, researchers including those from a pioneering lab at MIT have found that stacking individual sheets of the 2D materials, and sometimes twisting them at a slight angle to each other, can give them new...

The Spatial Mouse Atlas: New insights into cell fate

High-resolution gene expression maps have been combined with single-cell genomics data to create a new resource for studying how cells adopt different identities during mammalian development. The Spatial Mouse Atlas is the result of a collaboration between researchers at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the Babraham Institute, the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, the Cancer...

New method makes it easier to predict algae blooms

Toxic algae can pose serious problems. Mussels become poisonous and aquaculture can be wiped out. But despite the monitoring of algae and toxins, it is very difficult to forecast when an algal bloom will occur. Now a research team at the University of Gothenburg in co-operation with Oslo University has discovered a way to improve the ability to predict toxic algae blooms.