A reddish-colored cigar-shaped interstellar object called ‘Oumuamua that is tumbling through our solar system may be…
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Timely precipitation will be essential for plants to counteract global warming
A new Columbia Engineering study shows that increased water stress — higher frequency of drought due…
Gene variant staves off Alzheimer's in some people
People with a gene variant that puts them at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease are protected…
Traditional vegetable diet lowers the risk of premature babies
It turns out we should follow our parent’ advice when we’re thinking about becoming parents ourselves,…
Supercomputing future wind power rise
First detailed study of scenarios for how wind energy can expand to 20 percent of total…
Seeking sounds of superfluids
Sound waves reveal the unique properties of an ultracold quantum gas, a model system for describing…
'Directing' evolution to identify potential drugs earlier in discovery
Scientists have developed a technique that could significantly reduce the time of discovering potential new antibody-based…
Flamingos form firm friendships
Flamingos form friendships that last for years, new research shows. Click here for original…
A new species of black endemic iguanas in Caribbeans is proposed for urgent conservation
A newly discovered endemic species of melanistic black iguana (Iguana melanoderma), discovered in Saba and Montserrat…
Predicting the evolution of genetic mutations
Quantitative biologists have designed a new machine learning technique for predicting evolutionary pathways. It could prove…