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Wildfire may benefit forest bats: study
Bats face many threats—from habitat loss and climate change to emerging diseases, such as white-nose syndrome.…
New instrument extends LIGO's reach
Just a year ago, the National Science Foundation-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, was picking…
First 'lab in a field' experiment reveals a sunnier side of climate change
Pioneering experiments using heated field plots to test the responses of crops to temperature have revealed…
Dull teeth, long skulls, specialized bites evolved in unrelated plant-eating dinosaurs
Herbivorous dinosaurs evolved many times during the 180 million-year Mesozoic era, and while they didn’t all…
Finding meaning in 'Rick and Morty,' one burp at a time
One of the first things new viewers of the cartoon “Rick and Morty” might notice about…
Conferring leaf rust resistance in cereal crops
Genes have been identified that confer resistance to multiple leaf rust species in barley. The findings…
First field measurements of laughing gas isotopes
Thanks to a newly developed laser spectrometer, Empa researchers can for the first time show which…
Warm-sector heavy rainfall in China: Studies and challenges
Warm-sector heavy rainfall (WSHR) is a type of rainstorm proposed by Chinese meteorologists that had been…
Changing wildfires in California's Sierra Nevada may threaten northern goshawks
Wildfire is a natural process in the forests of the western US, and many species have…