More than 100 experts from 45 countries have published a three-year study of the Earth’s land degradation, calling the problem “critical”.
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Peer-to-peer car sharing services have encouraged a small number of their members to ditch car ownership, according to a first-of-its-kind study of from the Transportation Sustainability Research Center.
A new U.S. Department of Energy project to develop the first detector able to remotely monitor nuclear reactors will also help physicists test the next generation of neutrino observatories.
UC Berkeley engineers have built a bright-light emitting device that is millimeters wide and fully transparent when turned off.
Most exploding stars flare brightly and then slowly fade over weeks to months, but an unusual group of supernovas noticed only in the last 10 years flare up and disappear within days.
Businesses are more likely to be environmentally friendly if it’s easier for them to borrow money.
Hoppy beer is all the rage among craft brewers and beer lovers, and now UC Berkeley biologists have come up with a way to create these unique flavors and aromas without using hops.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) today named David A. Patterson, professor emeritus, a recipient of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design of computer architectures.
A new scenario seeking to explain how Mars’ putative oceans came and went over the last 4 billion years implies that the oceans formed several hundred million years earlier and were not as deep as once thought.
In a breakthrough that could lead to a new class of materials with functions found only in living systems, scientists have figured out a way to keep certain proteins active outside of the cell.
How could complex carbon-based molecules – a rich zoo of chemical compounds formed from fused rings of carbon and hydrogen – possibly form in the cold vacuum of space?
In Hawaiian Ariamnes stick spiders, adaptive radiation has resulted in 14 species now living across Hawaii.
A new study warns that sinking land — primarily the compaction of landfill in places such as Treasure Island and Foster City — will make flooding even worse.
Scientists have discovered that the same kind of fat cells that help newborn babies regulate their body temperature could be a target for weight-loss drugs in adults.
When a car seat heats up on a hot day, it just gets.... hot. But some materials become totally transformed by the sun’s heat. They undergo a kind of Jekyll and Hyde reversal called a phase change. They turn from insulators to metals. Junqiao Wu is exploiting the most remarkable of these compounds, called vanadium dioxide, to devise ways to cool buildings, winter-proof car engines, and even create novel sunglasses.
Crops possibly can be grown with significantly less water by altering a gene involved in regulating photosynthesis, according to new research.