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Research on graphene has made great strides in recent years. However, to fully harness its potential in applications such as ...

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Scientists have found that young stellar cousins of our sun are calming down and dimming more quickly in their X-ray output ...

In a new study, appearing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, scientists selectively bred Japanese ...

New research from the UBC-based Mother Tree Project is shedding light on how forests respond to harvesting and climate stress ...

Rice has historically been a heat-loving plant. In fact, the wild ancestor of cultivated rice once grew primarily on the ...

A new study by Hashem Akbari, a professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, offers a ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are tiny plastic particles that result from the breakdown of larger plastic products due to ...

Oceans absorb roughly 25% to 30% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that is released into the atmosphere. When this CO2 dissolves in ...

Coastal groundwater is a key source of drinking water in many regions of the world. However, it is threatened by ...

Beginning in the 1950s, silicon transformed the electronics industry by enabling smaller and faster devices that could be ...