Colorado River flows will keep shrinking as climate warms

Warming in the 21st century reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet, about…

New studies quantify the impacts of water use on diversity of fish and aquatic insects in NC streams

The health of fish and aquatic insects could be significantly affected by withdrawals of fresh water…

NASA’s SnowEx challenges the sensing techniques… ‘until they break’

A NASA-led team will kick off an ambitious airborne campaign to determine which combination of sensors…

Prediction: More gas-giants will be found orbiting Sun-like stars

New planetary formation models from Carnegie's Alan Boss indicate that there may be an undiscovered population…

Radiocarbon dating and DNA show ancient Puebloan leadership in the maternal line

Discovering who was a leader, or even if leaders existed, from the ruins of archaeological sites…

Scientists combine the ultra-fast with the ultra-small to pioneer microscopy at terahertz frequencies

For the first time ever, scientists have captured images of terahertz electron dynamics of a semiconductor…

Model of CRISPR, phage co-evolution explains confusing experimental results

A Rice University study suggests that researchers planning to use the CRISPR genome-editing system to produce…

Prides, protection and parks: Africa’s protected areas can support four times as many lions

New York, NY-Africa's protected parks and reserves are capable of supporting three to four times as…

Study details ringed structure of ORC in DNA replication

An international collaboration of life scientists, including experts at Van Andel Research Institute, has described in…

New data about two distant asteroids give a clue to the possible ‘Planet Nine’

The dynamical properties of these asteroids, observed spectroscopiccally for the first time using the Gran Telescopio…