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Clock is ticking to save East Antarctica from climate change
The worst effects of global warming on the world’s largest ice sheet could be avoided if…
Research identifies, exploits vulnerability in certain high-risk cancers
A subset of cancers exist that produce predominantly poor outcomes because their cells employ a mechanism…
How a harmful fungus renders its host plant defenseless
The fungus Ustilago maydis attacks corn and can cause significant damage to its host. To do…
Nearly a hundred genes have been lost during the woolly mammoth's evolution
A new study shows that 87 genes have been affected by deletions or short insertions during…
Female monkeys with female friends live longer
Anthropology professors and field primatologists have documented the daily life of hundreds of the large-brained capuchin…
Amazon's growth limited by lack of phosphorus
Growth of the Amazon rainforest in our increasingly carbon-rich atmosphere could be limited by a lack…
Evidence that giant meteorite impacts created the continents
New research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth’s continents were formed by giant meteorite…
Even modest climate change may lead to sweeping changes in northernmost forests
Even relatively modest climate warming and associated precipitation shifts may dramatically alter Earth’s northernmost forests, which…
Ultracold atoms dressed by light simulate gauge theories
Researchers have used the coldest systems in the universe to realize in the laboratory gauge theories,…