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Researchers Deconstruct Bee Stinger to Help Develop Tiny Medical Devices

New research deconstructing the anatomy of a honeybee stinger could help pave the way for a future generation of miniaturised medical devices used for drug delivery in humans.

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Neptune's Disappearing Clouds Linked to the Solar Cycle

Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune's shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the waxing and waning of the Sun's entangled magnetic fields drives solar activity.

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Making Waves in Open Science: NASA Initiatives Enable Ocean Research

As NASA works to make data and research more meaningful and accessible to diverse public and scientific audiences, the agency’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS) program is supporting open science efforts and programs across a variety of scientific disciplines, including climate science and physical oceanography. 

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Study Finds More U.S. Crops to Require Irrigation

With climate change, irrigating more crops in the United States will be critical to sustaining future yields, as drought conditions are likely to increase due to warmer temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns. 

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Studying How Children Learn Words With No Meaning

Researchers at the MIT Language Acquisition Lab are using funds from the 2022 Levitan Prize in the Humanities to carry out a set of studies investigating children's acquisition of "expletives" or “dummy words” — words that don't seem to have any meaning.

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Gray Whale Calf Count Increases from All-time Low, Positive Sign for the Population

Almost twice as many gray whale calves swam north with their mothers to their Arctic feeding grounds this spring compared to last year, according to a new count completed by NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center.

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Fresher Air: AI and Mobility Data May Improve Air Pollution Exposure Models

Americans in the northeast paid greater attention to air quality alerts this summer as wildfire smoke thickened skies with an orange-tinted haze.

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Bee Populations At Risk of One-Two Punch From Heat Waves, Pathogen Infection

The historically high heat waves that gripped the southwest United States and southern Europe this summer are causing problems for more than just humans.

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UC Irvine Scientists Say Deepening Arctic Snowpack Drives Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Human-caused climate change is shortening the snow cover period in the Arctic.

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Soils in Drought Stress Leak More Volatile Organic Compounds Into the Atmosphere

A Biosphere 2 rainforest experiment reveals soils release more volatile organic compounds into the atmosphere during drought.  

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