!

Articles tagged with "Earth & Environmental Sciences"

Sort by

Planet Earth: A user’s guide

December 4, 2020
Insight
In the 2020 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, three expert scientists from different fields will reveal some hidden wonders of the Earth and explore human impact on our planet. In anticipation...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Geophysics, Oceanography
Read More...

Self-watering soil could transform farming

November 9, 2020
News
They say water is set to become more valuable than oil, with water scarcity becoming one of the most pressing challenges for many nations across the globe. For centuries, humanity...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Biology, Botany, Developmental Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Food & Bev, Food Science, Materials, Materials Science, Soil Science
Read More...

NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins, Crewmates Arrive Safely at Space Station

October 19, 2020
News
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and two Russian cosmonauts arrived aboard the International Space Station on 14 October, returning a medical researcher to the orbiting laboratory ahead of the 20th anniversary...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Developmental Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environmental, Genetics, Geophysics, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Proteomics & Genomics
Read More...

Environmentally friendly silicon recycling

September 10, 2020
News
Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) have developed a new method of silicon recycling. Their research was published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biotech, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Environmental, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology
Read More...

New fossil ape discovered in India

September 9, 2020
News
A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape, the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon. The discovery by Christopher C. Gilbert, Hunter College, fills...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Paleobiology
Read More...

Fungus leather: new front-runner for sustainable clothing material

September 9, 2020
News
In a new review paper by the University of Vienna, Imperial College London, and RMIT University in Australia, researchers argue that leather made from fungi has "considerable potential" to be...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Biology, Botany, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Materials, Materials Science, Parasitology
Read More...

Coronavirus ‘trap and zap’ technology

August 24, 2020
News
Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their 'trap and zap' wastewater-treatment technology to capture and deactivate the virus that causes COVID-19. Image: A schematic of the SARS-CoV-2 viral particle, which...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Atmospheric Sciences, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Health, Health & Safety, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Oceanography
Read More...

Converting self-sterilising water filtration technologies for COVID-19 protection

August 24, 2020
News
With the worldwide focus on coronavirus prevention and transmission, a new type of air-filter that self-sterilises and decontaminates is being developed at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Atmospheric Sciences, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Oceanography
Read More...

New international carbon dating standard

August 13, 2020
News
Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientists improved the technique for assessing the age of historical objects.
Earth & Environmental, Materials
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environmental, Geology, Geophysics, Materials, Materials Science, Soil Science
Read More...

Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite reveals new penguin colonies

August 5, 2020
News
A new study using satellite mapping technology reveals there are nearly 20% more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than was previously thought. The results provide an important benchmark for monitoring...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Zoology
Read More...

Pin It on Pinterest