The stink of ammonia in urine, sweat, and rotting meat repels humans, but many insects find…
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Wild bees need deadwood in the forest
How many tree species are there in the forest? How are the trees scattered throughout? How…
Study: Environmental risks exacerbated for vulnerable populations in small towns
A new study of small Iowa towns found that vulnerable populations within those communities face significantly…
Being Anglo-Saxon was a matter of language and culture, not genetics
A new study from archaeologists at University of Sydney and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has…
East Antarctic summer cooling trends caused by tropical rainfall clusters
Our planet is warming due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, but the warming differs from region…
Where did Sierra snow go this spring? Not into California rivers and water supplies
California’s severe drought was made worse this year by a shocking surprise. Click here…
Pandemic air quality due to weather, not just lockdowns
Headlines proclaiming COVID lockdowns drastically reduced pollution were mostly referring to nitrogen dioxide, NO2, a reactive…
NASA Helps Map Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Harmful Air Pollution
For tiny airborne-particle pollution, known as PM 2.5, researchers using NASA data found that variability from…
Why the big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe
We once thought the big bang was a single moment, but physicists are now settling on…
The hunt for a primordial force that would revolutionise cosmology
Finding magnetic fields dating back to the big bang would transform our understanding of how the…