Exposure to air pollution just before or after conception raises risk of birth defects
Women exposed to air pollution just prior to conception or during the first month of pregnancy face an increased risk of their children being...
Novel framework to infer microbial interactions
Inferring the underlying ecological networks of microbial communities is important to understanding their structure and responses to external stimuli. But it can be very...
Global variation in the cost of increasing ecosystem carbon
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The health of Antarctic ice shelves
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The far reach of ice-shelf thinning in Antarctica
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Producing hydrogen from methane in a cleaner, cheaper way
A ceramic membrane makes it possible to produce compressed hydrogen from methane with near-zero energy loss.
Guiding decisions about Spirit Lake and Toutle River at Mount St. Helens
A new report offers a framework to guide federal, tribal, state and local agencies, community groups, and other interested and affected parties in making...
Extreme fieldwork, climate modeling yields new insight into predicting Greenland’s melt
A new study brings together scientists from land hydrology, glaciology and climate modeling to unravel a meltwater mystery. Researchers discovered that some meltwater from...
Many more bacteria have electrically conducting filaments
The microbiologists who have discovered electrically conducting microfilaments or 'nanowires' in the bacterium Geobacter, announce in a new article that they have discovered the...
Marine mammal beachings not likely due to space weather
After a collaboration between NASA scientists and marine biologists, new research rules out space weather as a primary cause of animal beachings.
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