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Crocodiles are the closest living relatives of birds, sharing a common ancestor that lived around 240 million years ago and also gave rise t...

Brachiopod Paraspirifer bownockeri from the Middle Devonian of Ohio (USA); Width: 5.6 cm. Picture: U. Jansen, Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt ...

 Teng Lim is operating a small-scale anaerobic digester at the MU swine farm in Columbia. The system generates energy and can mitigate hog o...

(Figs 2–4). CORBIDI 14685, an adult male (Figs 2–4) from 13.5806 S, 75.2449 W (WGS84), Chicchobamba, upstream of Represa Negrayccassa, upper...

W hile western eyes are focused on the ongoing problems of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor site, thousands of people are still evacuat...

Spider silk is an impressive material; lightweight and stretchy yet stronger than steel. But the challenge that spiders face to produce this...

During the launch event in Kiel, the project partners plan investigations to ecosystems around the manganese nodules. Photo: J. Steffen, GE...

A new technique for passively probing the sea floor using weak seismic waves generated by the ocean was tested at the Ekofisk oil field in t...

credit to Gerard Wong, of the California NanoSystems Institute B acterial biofilms, at first glance, may seem to be spontaneous, random phen...

                                                              Mosquito Anopheles A drug already approved for treating other diseases may be ...