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Danish researchers looking for rare enzyme that can break down plastics

Plastics really can be broken down, and researchers at Aarhus University have started to hunt for the unique enzymes that can do the...

Could we run out of sand? Scientists adjust how grains are measured

Humans see sand as an infinite resource. We are astounded to discover there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand...

Astronauts on the International Space Station are helping to forge a bizarre form of matter that does not exist in nature

Researchers created a fifth state of matter in 1995, the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), by cooling atoms to temperatures lower than in interstellar space. BECs...

Out of the ashes, a new world-By Walt Patterson

A solar farm at the Colle des Mees, in Provence. We humans base our activities on the stories we tell ourselves. The story we...

Climate change has degraded productivity of shelf sea food webs

A shortage of summer nutrients as a result of our changing climate has contributed to a 50% decline in important North East Atlantic...

Great white shark diet surprises scientists

The first-ever detailed study of the diets of great white sharks off the east Australian coast reveals this apex predator spends more time...

Marqeta Lands $150 Million, Boosts Valuation to $4.3 Billion

Photo by Georgie Cobbs on UnsplashIn a world of shrinking valuations and declining VC funding, payments company Marqeta is bucking the norm. The California-based company announced...

Considerations for Public Pools, Hot Tubs, and Water Playgrounds During COVID-19

As public aquatic venues open in some areas, CDC offers the following considerations for the safety of those who operate, manage, and use...

Kerry Emanuel, David Sabatini, and Peter Shor receive BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge awards

The BBVA Foundation awarded three MIT professors Frontiers of Knowledge Awards for their work in climate change, biology and biomedicine,...

Study: Life might survive, and thrive, in a hydrogen world

As new and more powerful telescopes blink on in the next few years, astronomers will be able to aim the...

The growth of an organism rides on a pattern of waves

When an egg cell of almost any sexually reproducing species is fertilized, it sets off a series of waves that...

Testing the waters

In 2010, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began restoring the Broad Meadows salt marsh in Quincy, Massachusetts. The marsh,...

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