Hurricane Otis caused at least 27 deaths and major damage as it battered Mexico’s beachside city…
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Letting those leaves pile up? New research shows leaf litter contains persistent free radicals
Research led by environmental health sciences (ENHS) associate professor Eric Vejerano has found that leaves are…
Tourists evacuated from Mexico's hurricane-hit Acapulco
Airlines began to evacuate tourists from Mexico’s beachside city of Acapulco on Friday after a scale-topping…
Researchers reveal hidden sensory mechanism of hair follicles
Imperial researchers have discovered a hidden mechanism within hair follicles that allow us to feel touch.…
A novel sparse synthetic aperture radar unambiguous imaging method based on mixed-norm optimization
Compared with traditional matched filtering (MF) based methods, sparse synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging could obtain…
Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours: Baboons wily cooperators
Like humans, baboons are able to cooperate with another of their kind for the common good—or…
Meltwater flowing beneath Antarctic glaciers may be accelerating their retreat
A new Antarctic ice sheet modeling study from scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of…
Underwater robot finds new circulation pattern in Antarctic ice shelf
More than merely cracks in the ice, crevasses play an important role in circulating seawater beneath…
'End-effector,' robotic system developed by engineering team puts autonomous cotton harvesting within reach
A two-fingered robotic arm reaches toward a fluffy white cotton boll in a field. The device…
Earliest evidence of flip flops in the Middle Stone Age
In a twist in the ancient human story, emerging evidence suggests that we may have worn…