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Liquid platinum catalyst offers sustainable solution for industry

August 26, 2022
Australian scientists say they have found a way to employ platinum as a potentially scalable industrial catalyst, by avoiding the financial and environmental cost of using the metal in its...

Arboreal anural amphibians amaze academics

July 9, 2022
A study intended to track tree-dwelling mammal species has uncovered a surprise occupant in the branches – toads.

Innovations in geodetics for environmental research

July 4, 2022
From coastal landslide modelling to mapping geological hazards, monitoring active lava domes and biodiversity management, Lee Jones explains how drone-based and terrestrial LiDAR scanning has transformed image capture for environmental...

Turning drought into opportunity

June 29, 2022
Mineral physics can help provide a solution to water shortage and its applications may not be limited only to our own world, suggests Sabrina Lautin.

Scientists identify the most extreme heatwaves ever recorded globally

May 4, 2022
A new study has revealed the most intense heatwaves ever across the world – and remarkably some of these went almost unnoticed decades ago. The research, led by the University...

Technological research and development in agritech

March 4, 2022
It is increasingly important for agricultural research to raise awareness of conditions leading to low productivity and problems like excessive loss of water during irrigation, damage to land and crops,...

Fossil research uncovers a new species of giant Triassic crocodile

February 23, 2022
An examination of the fossil record by Birmingham researchers has uncovered a new species of giant Triassic crocodile named Mambawakale ruhuhu. Excavated in Tanzania nearly 60 years ago, the fossils...

Prize winning studies of life’s earliest history

January 31, 2022
Andrew Knoll has depicted the first three billion years of life on Earth using his studies of microfossils and innovative methods to illuminate their biochemical evolution. In recognition of his...

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