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Moving faster in a crowd
Cell particles move more quickly through a crowded cellular environment when the crowding molecules are non-uniformly…
Oxygen depletion in ancient oceans caused major mass extinction
Late in the prehistoric Silurian Period, around 420 million years ago, a devastating mass extinction event…
The 'universal break-up criterion' of hot, flowing lava?
Thomas Jones’ “universal break-up criterion” won’t help with meltdowns of the heart, but it will help…
Breakthrough enables storage and release of mechanical waves without energy loss
Light and sound waves are at the basis of energy and signal transport and fundamental to…
Reconstructing the Anak Krakatau flank collapse that caused the December 2018 Indonesian tsunami
A new study published in Geology presents the detailed observation of a tsunami-generating volcano collapse by…
Scientists discover evidence for past high-level sea rise
An international team of scientists, studying evidence preserved in speleothems in a coastal cave, illustrate that…
Florida waits: Hurricane Dorian is looking increasingly dire
Unsure of where Hurricane Dorian might strike, Florida residents watched the increasingly dire forecast with a…
Hurricane Dorian marching slowly across Atlantic
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami reports that an Air Force plane is finding Dorian…
Convection-permitting models better depict the heavy rainfall events in 2016 eastern China flooding
A study by Chinese and British scientists that investigates a heavy rainfall event in the Yangtze…