The population of Caspian terns were already in decline throughout the Pacific flyway when they suffered a major avian flu outbreak at a large breeding site off the coast of Washington state.

The avian flu killed 1,101 adult Caspian terns and 520 chicks in 2023 in a large breeding colony on Rat Island in Washington state. Researchers estimate that as much as 10-14% of terns in the entire ...

Materials scientists can now use insight from a very common mineral and well-established earthquake and avalanche statistics to quantify how hostile environmental interactions may impact the ...

New research has shown that bio-based fibres caused higher mortality, and reduced growth and reproductivity, among earthworms ...

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged ...

Plesiosaurs once roamed Earth’s waters, using four equal flippers to propel their elongated bodies through the water. Fossils ...

In this paper, we consider the scenario where the prover of zk-SNARK delegates its proving power to other parties.

Led by Dr. Jae Sung Yoon at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), and Ph.D. candidate Nguyen Hoang Minh from ...

The CRISPR tool is capable of repairing the genetic defect responsible for the immune disease chronic granulomatous disease. However, researchers at the University of Zurich have now shown that there ...

The research team gathered saliva samples from Nepali people over a range of subsistence strategies— from nomadic hunter ...

Researchers from Uppsala and Magdeburg obtain an ERC Synergy Grant to advance cancer immunotherapy. The photo shows the ...

Thanks to a 'natural experiment' involving 30,000 people, researchers at Radboud university medical center were able to determine very precisely what an extra year of education does to the brain in ...