Hawaiian corals subject to increasing heat stress and more prevalent bleaching events since first major bleaching event in 1996. Fortunately, new research from oceanographers found Hawaiian corals have possibility of adapting to future heat stress, even under high emissions scenario.

Mosses are some of the earliest plants that appeared in the fossil record, but they’re anything but simple. A new study, published in Royal Society Open Science, reveals that moss cushions produce surprisingly complex electrical activity, with patterns that undulate across the velvety patch in dynamic waves. The study’s sole author, Andy Adamatzky, is actually…

Dimension Raises $800 Million for Third Fund Focused on AI and Biotechnology  geneonline.com

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Fauci invokes fifth amendment right not to answer questions Anthony Fauci, the former veteran director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid), invoked the Fifth Amendment during a hearing before the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. During his long history in the government, he many times appeared before committee’s…

We know that air pollution is bad for us, and if we think about it, it’s probably obvious that it’s particularly bad for our lungs. But many people don’t realize how much it affects many other bodily systems. Pollutants in the air don’t just get into our lung tissue and stay there. The tiniest pollutants…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech It may already feel like a distant memory, but Cambridge Analytica was once implicated in one of the biggest social media scandals in history. Back in March 2018, journalists at The Observer and The New York Times revealed…