UChicago-led research could yield increased food production, boost drought tolerance

Wildfire activity amid extreme heat and drought has resulted in smoke blanketing much of the United States and Canada.

For more than 30 years, scientists on the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have focused on human-induced climate change. 

Reduced mobility induced by the COVID-19 restrictions had only minor influence on particulate pollution levels according to atmosphere studies in the Po Valley region of northern Italy. 

The future of Samoa’s electricity system could go green, a University of Otago study has shown.

Scientists have developed a ‘nanobody’ – a small fragment of a llama antibody – that is capable of chasing out human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) as it hides away from the immune system.

An international research team has come up with an innovative method for metal recovery from industrial waste. 

The remains of microscopic plankton blooms in near-shore ocean environments slowly sink to the seafloor, setting off processes that forever alter an important record of Earth’s history, according to research from geoscientists, including David Fike at Washington University in St. Louis.

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have designed a new class of molten sodium batteries for grid-scale energy storage. 

It’s hard to save what you can’t identify. That’s been a problem for the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse, which is found only in the salty, brackish waters of the San Francisco Bay Area.