Linking fossil climate proxies to living bacteria helps climate predictions
Fossilized microbial skins can give us a glimpse of how the climate was in the deep geological past. By discovering the 'missing link' between...
Mapping the middle ground: Balancing mining activities with survival of Utah’s rare plants
A research team is mapping out new modeling strategies so that proposed energy development and the management of rare plants don't necessarily have to...
Warm days are contributing to gun violence surge across the United States, study finds
A new study has found a consistent relationship between higher temperatures and higher risk of shootings in 100 of the country's most populated cities....
Wood-eating clams use their feces to dominate their habitat
Researchers didn't know what to make of sunken pieces of wood that were so thoroughly chewed-up by clams that the wood crumbled in their...
Risk of population disruption as a result of decarbonization
Researchers analyzed the effects of decarbonization strategies by linking global resource inventories with demographic systems to generate a matrix showing the risks and benefits....
Christmas-colored droplets hint at solutions for fog harvesting
When droplets glide along a specially engineered wire, they gain speed as they coalesce. When the water-attracting wire is inclined, the droplets propel themselves...
Harnessing smartphones to track how people use green spaces
A new study demonstrates how anonymized GPS data from people's smartphones can be used to monitor the public's use of parks and other green...
Pitch-perfect: Study of World Cup’s turfgrass may help crops yield more from less
Thanks to a new study, the official turfgrass of the 2022 World Cup may soon assist another goal: growing crops that yield more food...
Octopuses may link evolution of complex life to genetic ‘dark matter’
Researchers reported that octopuses are the first known invertebrates to show an increase over evolutionary time in microRNAs, which are gene-regulating molecules linked to the...
Imaging gases in rainbow colors
Scientists have designed and fabricated a simple device capable of imaging a gas injected into it in multiple colors in accordance with its gaseous...
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