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A recent study of the impact of climate change on butterflies suggests that some species might adapt much better than others, with implications for the pollination and herbivory associated with...
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With the moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a
major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many
ancient cultures thought it could...
University of Nevada, Reno scientists confirm Sierra Nevada 200-year megadroughts
The erratic year-to-year swings in precipitation totals in the
Reno-Tahoe area conjures up the word "drought" every couple of
years, and this year is no exception. The Nevada State Climate...
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On May 17, 2012 an M-class flare exploded from the sun. The eruption also shot out a burst of solar particles traveling at nearly the speed of light that reached...
X-ray 'echoes' map a supermassive black hole's environs
An international team of astronomers using data from the European
Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton satellite has identified a
long-sought X-ray "echo" that promises a new way to probe
supersized black...
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One idea for fighting global warming is to increase the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere, scattering incoming solar energy away from Earth's surface. But scientists theorize that this solar...
Vertebrates share ancient neural circuitry for complex social behaviors, biologists find
Humans, fish and frogs share neural circuits responsible for a diversity of social behavior, from flashy mating displays to aggression and monogamy, that have existed for more than 450 million...
Dark chocolate could prevent heart problems in high-risk people
Daily consumption of dark chocolate can reduce cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks and strokes, in people with metabolic syndrome (a cluster of factors that increases the risk of developing...
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Sure, sex may be fun, but it's a lot of work, and the payoff is by no means certain. Scientists have speculated for a long time on why all living...
Cosmic calculations
A University of Delaware-led research team reports an advance in
the June 1 issue of Science that may help astrophysicists
more accurately analyze the vast molecular clouds of gas and...
Arizona State University astronomers discover faintest distant galaxy
Astronomers at Arizona State University have found an exceptionally
distant galaxy, ranked among the top 10 most distant objects
currently known in space. Light from the recently detected galaxy left...
Quantum computers will be able to simulate particle collisions
Quantum computers are still years away, but a trio of theorists has already figured out at least one talent they may have. According to the theorists, including one from the...
Human hands leave prominent ecological footprints
Early human activity has left a greater footprint on today's ecosystem than previously thought, say researchers working at the University of Pittsburgh and in the multidisciplinary Long Term Ecological Research...
New understanding of terrestrial formation has significant and far reaching future implications
The current theory of continental drift provides a good model for understanding terrestrial processes through history. However, while plate tectonics is able to successfully shed light on processes up to...
The cell's 'New World'
n one of the most famous faux pas of exploration, Columbus set sail for India and instead 'discovered' America. Similarly, when scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in...
New small solid oxide fuel cell reaches record efficiency
Individual homes and entire neighborhoods could be powered with a
new, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell system that achieves up to
57 percent efficiency, significantly higher than the 30 to...
Nanotechnology breakthrough could dramatically improve medical tests
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according to researchers who combined standard biological tools with...
Predicting burglary patterns through math modeling of crime
Pattern formation in physical, biological, and sociological systems has been studied for many years. Despite the fact that these subject areas are completely diverse, the mathematics that describes underlying patterns...
On early Earth, iron may have performed magnesium's RNA folding job
On the periodic table of the elements, iron and magnesium are far
apart. But new evidence suggests that 3 billion years ago, iron did
the chemical work now...
We need to talk: How cells communicate to activate notch
During formation of multi-cellular organisms, cells need to talk to each other to make critical decisions as to what kind of cell to become, as well as when and where...
Genetic discovery unlocks biosynthesis of medicinal compound in poppy
Scientists at the University of York and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Australia have discovered a complex gene cluster responsible for the synthesis of the medicinal compound noscapine.
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