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The Climate Bomb Lurking Under Arctic Permafrost
New research aims to better understand how much methane – a potent greenhouse gas – is burbling to the surface of the Mackenzie Valley in Canada’s…
Cyclists’ Pacing Strategies Should Consider the Wind
Both Tour de France racers and recreational cyclists can improve performance by riding hardest into the wind. As the elite riders of the Tour de France…
Faster, deeper, smaller—the rise of antibody-like scaffolds
In early May the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca completed a deal with Boston-based Pieris Pharmaceuticals worth up to $2.1 billion to bring Pieris’ anticalin asthma drug PRS-060,…
Looking at Future Stormwater Solutions
Onto each city, some rain must fall. But we can be smarter about how we deal with it. Most of the time rainwater is treated as…
Quiet Please, the Fish Are Flirting
Fish that fart together stay together. In an ocean full of clicking shrimp and singing whales, fish are often imagined as the silent actors. Fish use…
Wise elk learn to outsmart hunters and tell apart their weapons
As female elk get older, they also get wiser: they learn how to avoid getting shot by hunters, and appear to adapt their behaviour to the…