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The strong El Niño currently under way in the Pacific Ocean raises the specter of marine heat waves and coral bleaching once ...
A new international study led by Lund University examines what happened to population levels after the Kikai-Akahoya volcanic ...
When a massive environmental disaster strikes, do societies simply collapse and disappear? Or do people find a way to adapt, ...
When scientists talk about scavengers, you might imagine an animal sniffing out or stumbling across a carcass, eating as much ...
Qubits, the quantum equivalent of digital bits, are fragile and prone to errors. That makes building reliable quantum ...
Alzheimer's disease is best known for its effects on memory and cognition, but the disease also involves changes in how brain ...
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a ...
The ocean beneath Saturn's moon Enceladus lies under kilometers of ice, but some of its contents do reach the surface. Jets ...
Astronomers using China's FAST radio telescope have discovered a compact cloud of hydrogen with no visible stars or galaxy ...
Poor access to health care, limited local influence over research priorities and an unequal distribution of scientific ...
With about 30 visual pigments, compared to just three in humans, mantis shrimp possess a visual system that remains a mystery ...