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WHRC debuts detailed maps of forest canopy height and carbon stock for the conterminous US

The Woods Hole Research Center has released the first hectare-scale maps of canopy height, aboveground biomass, and associated carbon stock for the forests and woodlands of the conterminous United States. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Explosive evolution need not follow mass extinctions, says study of ancient zooplankton

Following one of Earth's five greatest mass extinctions, tiny marine organisms called graptoloids did not begin to rapidly develop new physical traits until about 2 million years after competing species became ...

Biology / Evolution

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New device creates lipid spheres that mimic cell membranes

A new way of manipulating fluids on microscopic levels brings us one step closer to "bottom-up" artificial cell constructs.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0