Polar vortex, winter heat may change bird populations
Researchers set out to learn how extreme winter cold and heat affected 41 common bird species in eastern North America. They found that individual...
Mangrove root model may hold the key to preventing coastal erosion
How mangrove roots interact with water flow is believed to be a key element in mitigating coastal erosion. Researchers are the first to quantify...
Five million years of climate change preserved in one place
An international team of researchers has now succeeded in reconstructing changes in rainfall in Central Asia over the past five million years. The information...
Is Earth’s core lopsided? Strange goings-on in our planet’s interior
Seismic waves generated by earthquakes travel through Earth's solid iron inner core faster in the direction of the rotation axis than along the equator....
Coastal flooding increases Bay Area traffic delays and accidents
Disruptions from sea-level rise and coastal flooding events have significant indirect impacts on urban traffic networks and road safety.
How leafbirds make complex color-producing crystals
A recent study has discovered a novel way to manufacture single gyroid photonic crystals to work in the visible light spectrum, based on the...
Beneficial arthropods find winter sanctuary in uncultivated field edges, study finds
A new study reveals that beetles, wasps and other beneficial arthropods are nearly twice as abundant and diverse in uncultivated field edges in the...
Declining fish biodiversity poses risks for human nutrition
All fish are not created equal, at least when it comes to nutritional benefits. This truth has important implications for how declining fish biodiversity...
Record-breaking temperatures more likely in populated tropics
New research shows that most extreme heat events are going to occur in the tropics rather than the poles.
Machine learning platform mines nature for new drugs
Researchers have developed a new process using machine learning algorithms to match the signals of a microbe's metabolites with its genomic signals and identify...
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