After a historically wet winter and a cloudy spring, California's summer was in full swing Thursday as a heat wave that's been scorching much of the U.S. Southwest brings triple digit temperatures and an increased risk of ...
Environment
Jul 13, 2023
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Heat waves like the one that engulfed parts of parts of the South and Midwest and killed more than a dozen people are becoming more common, and experts say the extreme weather events, which claim more lives than hurricanes ...
Environment
Jun 30, 2023
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Cuckoos are having difficulty adjusting their internal clocks to the changing pace of the world.
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2023
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Accessing affordable fruit and vegetables is a significant challenge for the 1.2 million UK residents living in what are known as "food deserts."
Ecology
Jun 16, 2023
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Genomic research led by the University of California at Berkeley has looked to uncover the origins and history of desert adaptation in foxes. In a paper, "North African fox genomes show signatures of repeated introgression ...
An international team of astronomers has announced the second-ever discovery of a multiplanetary circumbinary system.
Planetary Sciences
Jun 12, 2023
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology report in Current Biology that in the absence of visible landmarks, desert ants increase the likelihood that foraging nest mates will find their way home quickly ...
Plants & Animals
May 31, 2023
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You've heard of food deserts, areas where healthy and nutritious food is all but impossible to find. But now experts are concerned about another public health problem: play deserts.
Social Sciences
May 17, 2023
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A machine learning model can predict the locations of minerals on Earth—and potentially other planets—by taking advantage of patterns in mineral associations. Science and industry seek mineral deposits to both better ...
Earth Sciences
May 17, 2023
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A lot has changed since the last Space Age. Unlike the days of Sputnik, Vostok, Mercury, and Apollo, the current era is not defined by two superpowers constantly vying for dominance and one-upmanship. More than ever, international ...
Space Exploration
May 12, 2023
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