A team of researchers led by Paulo Brando, assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine,…
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Are sinking soils in the Everglades related to climate change?
Characterized by alligators, airboats, and catfish, the Everglades is a region of swampy wetlands in southern…
Aeolus winds now in daily weather forecasts
ESA’s Aeolus satellite has been returning profiles of Earth’s winds since 3 September 2018, just after…
Making real a biotechnology dream: nitrogen-fixing cereal crops
As food demand rises due to growing and changing populations around the world, increasing crop production…
CLICS: World's largest database of cross-linguistic lexical associations
Every language has cases in which two or more concepts are expressed by the same word,…
Specific insulin-like peptide regulates how beetle 'weapons' grow
A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University and coworkers have discovered that a specific insulin-like peptide called…
The value of occupational licensing dims in the online world
Consider the last time you hired an electrician, plumber or painter. Did you care to check…
How Nepal benefits when women become active in water management
Humanitarian engineering student Elia Hauge discovers that a changing demographic in Nepal has led to more…
A new model of metabolism draws from thermodynamics and 'omics'
All living things are made of carbon, and sugars like glucose are a very common source…
The interiors of stars
The interiors of stars are largely mysterious regions because they are so difficult to observe directly.…