Two killed as storm lashes Spain

Freezing winds, heavy snow and rain lashed parts of Spain Monday, killing two people, forcing the…

Setting controlled fires to avoid wildfires

Despite having proven effective at reducing wildfire risks, prescribed burns have been stymied by perceived and…

Wisdom of the crowd? Building better forecasts from suboptimal predictors

Scientists have shown how to combine the forecasts of a collection of suboptimal ‘delay embedding’ predictors…

Strongly 'handed' squirrels less good at learning

Squirrels that strongly favor their left or right side are less good at learning, new research…

Becoming less active and gaining weight: Downsides of becoming an adult

Leaving school and getting a job both lead to a drop in the amount of physical…

Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk

Children born to mothers who both drank and smoked beyond the first trimester of pregnancy have…

Local water availability is permanently reduced after planting forests

River flow is reduced in areas where forests have been planted and does not recover over…

The Salt of the Comet

The Salt of the Comet Click here for original story, The Salt of the…

PIA23651: Nanedi Valles

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Click here…

Lithospheric thickening beneath the Betics and Rif mountains pulls down the topography by 1500 m

A new study made by researchers at the Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera of the…