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Sizzling Southwest summers can cause pavement burns in seconds
When temperatures throughout the sizzling Southwestern U.S. climb to over 100 degrees, the pavement can get…
Like film editors and archaeologists, biochemists piece together genome history
Old-school Hollywood editors cut unwanted frames of film and patched in desired frames to make a…
Physicists count sound particles with quantum microphone
Stanford physicists have developed a “quantum microphone” so sensitive that it can measure individual particles of…
Questions remain about Florida's new school-based mental health effort
Florida is planning to reinvent school-based mental health awareness, but Florida International University (FIU) psychologists are…
Grasshoppers on the go make migratory stop in Vegas area
A migration of mild-mannered grasshoppers sweeping through the Las Vegas area is being attributed to wet…
Tree-eating beetle gains ground in US West, raising concerns
Matt Johnson treks along an Arizona riverbank and picks out a patch of yellow-tinged tamarisks. He…
Trump threatens French wine in digital tax retaliation
US President Donald Trump on Friday vowed “substantial” retaliation against France for a tax hitting US…
Europe heatwave relents as travel chaos causes new pain
A heatwave that smashed temperature records in northern Europe finally relented Friday but thousands of holidaymakers…
Mouse genetics influences the microbiome more than environment
Genetics has a greater impact on the microbiome than maternal birth environment, at least in mice,…