New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting it.

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But this made it hard to do specific studies of the algae. When researchers scrape off samples of blackened ice, the petri dishes are filled with whole ecosystems. Until now the researchers have ...

For a long time, microbes like the ones in Yellowstone's hot springs were studied in isolation. Molecular ecologist Devaki ...

Children scream. I mean they scream. It is their major form of communicating with each other. It is never angry screaming — ...

(Image: BBC iPlayer) One of the contestants this year is Michelin Starred Mark McCabe, head chef of Henrock by Simon Rogan. The 37-year-old chef hails from a small village called Tannadice, near ...

A new series of Great British Menu, celebrating the show’s 20th anniversary, saw talented chefs tasked with creating a menu celebrating Great Britons of the past for a banquet a ...

It was worst under intense downlight. At restaurants and in over-lit shops, bright and mirrored changing rooms and airport ...

This pollen was donated by a corpse flower that bloomed in Queensland and put on ice for this very moment ... Specks of ochre ambrosia fall into a petri dish. The energy is jokey (“Anyone ...

Torsional stress in chromatin plays a fundamental role in cellular functions, influencing key processes such as transcription, replication, and chromatin organization. Transcription and other ...