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Bacteria That Eat Plastic Could Clean Oceans
Researchers at the University of British Columbia, publishing in *Environmental Science & Technology* in 2023, have engineered a strain of bacteria capable of…
Arctic Permafrost Releases Ancient Viruses, Potent Threat
In 2024, a team of French and Russian scientists, led by Dr. Jean-Michel Claverie of Aix-Marseille University, successfully revived several strains of ancient…
Frequency of Global Marine Heatwaves Increased Twentyfold Over Past Century
Research published in Nature Communications by scientists from the University of Bern and CSIRO found that the frequency of marine heatwaves has increased by…
Ocean Acidification Slows Coral Reef Recovery by 20% in Key Regions
A study by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the University of Western Australia, published in Coral Reefs, found that ocean acidification…
Microplastics Found in Earth's Deepest Ocean Trenches, Even Remote Areas
A study by researchers from the University of Plymouth and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has confirmed the presence of…
Thawing Arctic Permafrost Releases Massive Amounts of Trapped Mercury into Environment
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Harvard University, in research published in Geophysical Research Letters, have quantified that Arctic…
Ocean Plastics Leach Toxic Chemicals, Threatening Marine Life and Human Health
A study conducted by the University of Hawaii at Manoa, published in Environmental Science & Technology, has demonstrated that common ocean plastics…
Bioluminescent Organisms Emerge as Key Indicators of Ocean Health and Pollution
Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in a study published in Frontiers in Marine…
Microplastics Cross Fish Blood-Brain Barrier, Altering Behavior
Researchers at the University of Rhode Island have demonstrated that polystyrene nanoplastics can cross the blood-brain barrier in fish, leading to…
Drone-Collected Whale Snot Reveals Marine Mammal Health
Scientists at Murdoch University in Australia, in collaboration with conservation groups, have pioneered a drone-based method to collect 'whale snot'…
Deep Sleep Spindles Significantly Boost Memory Consolidation, Study Finds
Researchers at the University of Tübingen, led by Dr. Jan Born and Dr. Lisa Marshall, discovered that enhancing specific brain rhythms during deep sleep can…
Right Prefrontal Cortex Key to 'Remembering to Remember' (Prospective Memory)
A 2016 study from the University of East Anglia, published in *Cortex*, identified the right anterior prefrontal cortex as a crucial brain region for…