Researchers at the University of Washington have genetically modified a common houseplant “pothos ivy” to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it. The pothos ivy was engineered to express a protein called 2E1 which enables the breakdown of…
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Taal Levi, an Oregon State University ecologist and lead author on the study, said some tropical forests have as many as 1,000 different tree species living in the same general area. Our tropical forests are some of the richest and…
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So Many Earthquakes Happen In The “Wrong” Places. You can add river erosion to the list of geological triggers capable of setting off an earthquake, according to new research: and it could help explain the reason why so many earthquakes…
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The Great Barrier Reef stretches for over a thousand miles along Australia’s northeastern coast. “The idea here is to use an automated technique that allows us to target delivery of the larvae into damaged reef systems and increase the efficiency…
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When Oberhauser first visited the roosting sites, the migrating monarch butterfly population was at its peak. Oberhauser’s decades of studying monarchs have taken her far and wide. Our birth rate has fallen to its lowest rate ever. Monarchs traditionally reach…
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Extinct birds were nocturnal and blind. Early plants were small, unicellular or filamentous, with simple branching. “We wanted to know whether there were similar drivers for organisms during the Ediacaran period” , said Dr Emily Mitchell of Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences, the paper’s…
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You may be thinking “but my home’s air is clean”. There are actually air pollutants inside your home. On Wednesday, the new study published in Environmental Science and Technology, reported the hybrid plant was successful in dramatically reducing chloroform and…
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Located mostly in the tropics of Africa, Australia and Asia, the tiny creatures spend most of their lives burrowed into tree trunks or underground, to the endless frustration of scientists who would like to study them. But one species, Mystrium…