Astronomers use Earth’s natural history as guide to spot vegetation on new worlds
By looking at Earth's full natural history and evolution, astronomers may have found a template for vegetation fingerprints -- borrowing from epochs of changing...
‘Ground coffee’ with soil perks in Brazil
Coffee harvesting is often done with heavy machinery that can compact the soil. Additionally, up to 20 percent of coffee berries fall to the...
Sex in plants requires thrust
In plants, to fertilize the egg, the pollen tube (which is between 1/20 and 1/5 of the width of a human hair) has to...
Urbanization is cutting off life support to New York City’s wetlands
Using sediment cores to trace the evolution of Jamaica Bay's wetlands, a team led by researchers finds that urbanization is weakening the shoreline and...
North Korea’s 2017 bomb test set off later earthquakes, new analysis finds
Using newly refined analysis methods, scientists have discovered that a North Korean nuclear bomb test last fall set off aftershocks over a period of...
How will climate change stress the power grid? Hint: Look at dew point temperatures
A new study suggests the power industry is underestimating how climate change could affect the long-term demand for electricity in the United States. The...
Research forecasts US among top nations to suffer economic damage from climate change
For the first time, researchers have developed a data set quantifying what the social cost of carbon -- the measure of the economic harm...
Ready-to-use recipe for turning plant waste into gasoline
Bioscience engineers already knew how to make gasoline in the laboratory from plant waste such as sawdust. Now researchers have developed a roadmap, as...
Does our environment affect the genes in our brains?
Is there a link between differences in IQ test performance and the activity of certain genes? Researchers have shown that modifications in the structure...
National parks bear the brunt of climate change
Human-caused climate change has exposed US national parks to conditions hotter and drier than the rest of the nation, says a new study quantifying...
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