How to protect environment without sacrificing agriculture?
Food demand drives the most dominant land use on Earth. This causes a fundamental challenge to the natural environment.
Lots of natural habitats have been...
The History of Penguins in Australia
Recent studies on the fossil penguin faunas of Antarctica, New Zealand, South Africa, and South America have converged on several key events in penguin...
Remote sensing improves earthquake-response management for agricultural water
Earthquakes can damage the groundwater system, destruct agricultural activities, and threaten food security.
To prevent this, we need effective responses and recovery strategies.
This requires a...
Big data in smart city
Nowadays, the word “smart” means two things: sophisticated computing ability and connection.
We use various smart devices in daily life, such as smartphones, smartwatches, tablets,...
New theory may explain mystery of Fairy Circles of Namibia
The 'Fairy Circles' of Namibia, one of nature's biggest puzzles, may have finally been solved by scientists from the University of Strathclyde and Princeton...
A rare small specimen discovered from the age of flying giants
In the age of dinosaurs, not all creatures were as big as we often think!
Scientists have recently found remains of a small flying dinosaur,...
White deaths exceeded births in one-third of states
In 2014, for the first time, more white people died than were born in a record 17 U.S. states.
This is a significant increase compared...
Satellites confirm San Francisco’s Millennium Tower is sinking
Two space satellites called Sentinel-1 are helping scientists study why some buildings and areas of land are slowly sinking.
One example is the Millennium Tower...
How the chicken crossed the Red Sea thousand years ago
In a fascinating study conducted by Washington University in St. Louis, researchers have discovered some of the oldest physical evidence of domesticated chickens in...