A changing flood recipe for Las Vegas
Las Vegas, with its rapid urbanization and desert landscape, is highly vulnerable to flooding. For this reason, flood managers have built an extensive system...
In the wake of a wildfire, embers of change in cognition and brain function...
Five years after the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history, researchers document persistent differences in cognitive function among survivors.
Researchers uncover secrets on how Alaska’s Denali Fault formed
New findings begin to fill major gaps in understanding about how geological faults behave and appear as they deepen, and they could eventually help...
What’s driving re-burns across California and the West?
Seasonal temperature, moisture loss from plants and wind speed are what primarily drive fires that sweep across the same landscape multiple times, a new...
Sharing the burden of carbon dioxide removal
Carbon dioxide removal is key to meeting the climate goals outlined in the Paris Agreement. A new study analyzes what fair and equitable burden-sharing...
Flower patterns make bumblebees more efficient
The search for nectar costs insects a lot of energy, so they have to be as efficient as possible. Colorful patterns on the petals...
Global warming reaches central Greenland
A temperature reconstruction from ice cores of the past 1,000 years reveals that today's warming in central-north Greenland is surprisingly pronounced. The most recent...
Harnessing solar energy: New method improves readings of double-sided panels
A laboratory in photonics and renewable energy has developed a new method for measuring the solar energy produced by bifacial solar panels, the double-sided...
17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica
Antarctica is a tough place to work, for obvious reasons -- it's bitterly cold, remote, and wild. However, it's one of the best places...
New study decodes one of the living world’s fastest cell movements
Heliozoan axopodia are important for their motility. However, the underlying mechanism of their axopodial contraction has remained ambiguous. Recently, researchers have reported that microtubules...
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