Greenland, Antarctica Melting Six Times Faster Than in the 1990s

The two regions have lost 6.4 trillion tons of ice in three decades; unabated,…

Soft corals near Virgin Islands recover from hurricanes, but stony corals declining

Soft corals at three sites in the U.S. Virgin Islands were able to recover from the…

Predicting the impacts of white-nose syndrome in bats

Since 2005, millions of bats have perished from white-nose syndrome, a disease caused by the fungus…

Giant clam shells: Unprecedented natural archives for paleoweather

Paleoclimate research offers an overview of Earth’s climate change over the past 65 million years or…

Scientists have discovered the origins of the building blocks of life

Rutgers researchers have discovered the origins of the protein structures responsible for metabolism: simple molecules that…

Even a limited India-Pakistan nuclear war would bring global famine, says study

The concept of nuclear winter—a years-long planetary freeze brought on by airborne soot generated by nuclear…

Soft corals near Virgin Islands recover from hurricanes, but stony corals declining

Soft corals at three sites in the US Virgin Islands were able to recover from the…

NASA Selects Proposals to Study Volatile Stars, Galaxies, Cosmic Collisions

NASA has selected proposals for four missions that would study cosmic explosions and the debris they…

Coronavirus spreads quickly and sometimes before people have symptoms, study finds

Infectious disease researchers studying the novel coronavirus were able to identify how quickly the virus can…

One VHF-UHF-Microwave Conference Postponed, Another Canceled

One of two US VHF-UHF-microwave groups has canceled its 2020 conference, while another has postponed its…