Maternal depression and natural disaster-related stress may affect infants’ temperament
A new study demonstrates that prenatal maternal depression has important consequences for infant temperament. Furthermore, the negative impact of prenatal maternal depression appeared to...
Recycled gypsum as an agricultural product
Gypsum, a source of calcium and sulfur, can benefit crops and soils. When recovered from power plant smokestacks, it brings the additional benefits of...
Tree loss from bark-beetle infestation impacts elk habitat
Although elk typically adapt to forest disturbances such as forest fires and logging, a new study found that during the summer, elk avoided areas...
Scientists study organization of life on a planetary scale
In astrobiology, there is an increasing interest in whether life as we know it is a quirk of the particular evolutionary history of the...
Differences in water temperature can create new marine species
Warm and cool water temperatures over a long stretch of coastline cause new species of marine fish to evolve without being isolated from similar...
New islands, happy feet: Study reveals island formation a key driver of penguin speciation
Ever since Darwin first set foot on the Galapagos, evolutionary biologists have long known that the geographic isolation of archipelagos has helped spur the...
Self-driving cars and geospatial data: Who holds the keys?
As self-driving cars continue to develop, there will be plenty of data amassed through cars' navigational technologies. Questions regarding privacy, ownership, cybersecurity and public...
Dark fiber lays groundwork for long-distance earthquake detection and groundwater mapping
Researchers have turned parts of a 13,000-mile-long testbed of 'dark fiber', unused fiber-optic cable, owned by the DOE Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), into a...
New scale to characterize strength and impacts of atmospheric river storms
A team of researchers has created a scale to characterize the strength and impacts of the weather phenomenon known as 'atmospheric rivers.'
Revising the history of big, climate-altering volcanic eruptions
Researchers have developed a new isotopic method to analyze the recent history of large stratospheric volcanic eruptions, using 2,600 years' worth of records contained...
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