3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (539+ words) Groundwater contamination is a growing global challenge, but predicting how pollutants behave underground remains difficult. A new review suggests that an often overlooked property of sediments, their ability to donate and accept electrons, could provide scientists and engineers with a…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (180+ words) A research team, led by Professor Gaku Fukuhara of Kyushu University’s Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering (IMCE), investigated this biological phenomenon. They focused on PoXeR, a protein from a deep-sea bacterium. Using a custom-built apparatus, they subjected the protein…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (596+ words) EurekAlert! ABCS reactor for the co-digestion of solid organic waste and high-strength wastewater from biomanufacturing processes Credit: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Researchers at AIST, in collaboration with researchers from the National Institute of Technology, Kagoshima…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (52+ words) (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Taking water samples from a glacial river on Svalbard Credit must be given to the creator. More on this News Release New study raises concerns about climate feedback loop as melting Arctic glaciers flush ancient methane from rocks…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (498+ words) New review calls for better coastal observations to predict Antarctic ice loss image: A new, international, community-led scientific review warns that major gaps in knowledge along Antarctica’s coast are now one of the biggest obstacles to reliably predicting future global…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (193+ words) The tiny helpers of marine sponges also use organic amino acids image: Figure 1: The bright yellow elephant ear sponge, called Ianthella basta, can be found across coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific Ocean including the Great Barrier Reef off the coast…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (787+ words) image: Researchers collecting measurements of algae and sea ice properties in the Chukchi Sea in July 2011, as part of NASA’s Impacts of Climate on the Eco-Systems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment (ICESCAPE) mission. The changes of the Arctic…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (48+ words) [IMAGE] EurekAlert! Application and prospect of artificial intelligence in biochar for acidic soil amelioration Linyu Guo, Kewei Li & Ren-kou Xu More on this News Release Artificial intelligence could help unlock smarter biochar strategies for acidic soils...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (373+ words) image: An image shows the state shift from healthy kelp forest (top) to turf algae (bottom) that is taking place along the Maine coast. view more Credit: Shane Farrell, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences As one moves north, Maine’s kelp…...