Category: 7. Science

A group of researchers supported by FAPESP has confirmed the identity of the first lichens to inhabit Earth, Spongiophyton, around 410 million years ago, in great detail for the first time. Lichens are a symbiosis of fungi and algae…

BYLINE: Christina Nunez

His work has broad relevance, including making the most of difficult-to-mine rare-earth elements.

In 2023, Saw Wai Hla and a team of scientists from the…

“Super-Earth” exoplanets may have an in-built way to protect themselves from harmful radiation, giving any potential life on such worlds a better chance of surviving, according to recent research.

Super-Earths, worlds larger than Earth but…

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There are a lot of surfers living in and around Los Angeles. It’s a nice ocean off that…

If you thought humanity already had its hands full with climate change, think again.

With satellites and space junk increasingly cluttering our…

Scientists are tackling the challenge of building continually learning perception systems, but current research largely concentrates on single tasks. Bo Yuan, Danpei Zhao (from Beihang University and the Tianmushan Laboratory), Wentao Li, Tian…