New way to discern what microbes eat
A new technique helps researchers determine food eaten by microbes.
Seismometer readings could offer debris flow early warning
A debris flow that struck Montecito, Calif., in January was detected by a nearby seismometer.
Radish cover crop traps nitrogen; mystery follows
New research supports the use of radish as a cover crop as a trap crop for fall nitrogen. However, what happens to that nitrogen...
Bees adjust to seasons with nutrients in flowers and ‘dirty water’
Researchers have discovered that honey bees alter their diet of nutrients according to the season. A spike in calcium consumption in the fall, and...
Recycled electrical products lead to hazardous chemicals appearing in everyday items
Hazardous chemicals such as bromine, antimony and lead are finding their way into food-contact items and other everyday products because manufacturers are using recycled...
Huddling for survival: monkeys with more social partners can winter better
Wild monkeys which have more social partners form larger huddles in adverse weather and have a better chance of surviving winter, new research has...
Kicking the car(bon) habit better for air pollution than technology revolution
Changing our lifestyles and the way we travel could have as big -- if not more of an impact on carbon dioxide transport emissions,...
Increasing heat is driving off clouds that dampen California wildfires
Sunny California may be getting too sunny. Increasing summer temperatures brought on by a combination of intensifying urbanization and warming climate are driving off...
Ants provide clues to why biodiversity is higher in the tropics
New global data of invertebrate distributions suggests time holds key to species diversity.
The case of the relativistic particles solved with NASA missions
Encircling Earth are two enormous rings -- called the Van Allen radiation belts -- of highly energized ions and electrons. Various processes can accelerate...
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The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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