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Cobalt catalyst rivals platinum in key industrial reaction

Propane dehydrogenation is a key industrial route to producing propylene without...

Image: Sunset at Mars's Gusev Crater in 2005

On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning v...

Barley grain production linked to peptide-receptor syst...

Grasses have evolved a wide variety of inflorescences, in which the seeds are ar...

Two newly discovered crayfish species are already at risk

For decades, the signal crayfish has been an ecological troublemaker. It is inva...

Plant protein needs adaptor to promote symbiosis with f...

Most land plants form mutually beneficial symbioses with fungi. The plant and th...

Hazy prospects for rainbow trout: Researchers uncover h...

Scientists from the University of South Bohemia and the Research Institute of Fa...

Heat wave forces early school closures in Pakistan's la...

Rising temperatures in Pakistan's most populous province have forced the provinc...

Fish driving cars and chimps doing math: What teaching ...

Did you know goldfish can learn to drive cars? Have you heard bumblebees can lea...

How membranes may have brought about the chemistry of l...

How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seekin...

For long-tailed tits, it really does take a village

Any parent will tell you how useful it can be to have family living nearby, givi...

The UK might have accepted the idea of youth mobility w...

The language might be dry, but the political shift is significant. Monday's summ...

Microplastics eaten by UK invertebrates are contaminati...

Plastic pollution is harming invertebrates at the bottom of the food chain, incl...

How to tackle new strains of potato blight and avoid an...

A new aggressive potato blight strain was detected in Wales and eastern Scotland...

Turn up the noise: Why distortion in music is growing i...

From Jimi Hendrix to Merzbow, artist-made music with distortion has become incre...

Do photons wear out? An astrophysicist explains light's...

My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyar...

Nonprofit news media leaders struggle to stop leaning o...

You've probably heard the adage about not putting all your eggs in one basket.

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