Geologists have dubbed Earth's middle age the "boring billion." Occurring some 1,800 to 800 million years ago, it has long been considered a period when little happened on Earth in terms of biological evolution, climate, ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2019
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It's important to know one's new cells are getting nourishment. Rice University scientists are working on a way to tell for sure.
Materials Science
Jul 25, 2019
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A new scientific paper co-authored by the University of Plymouth has said that eight urgent, simultaneous actions are needed to head off potential ecological disaster in the global ocean, amid signs of steeper and faster ...
Environment
Jul 24, 2019
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Mercury (Hg), and its more biologically available form, methylmercury (MeHg), are powerful neurotoxins that impact development and function of the central nervous system. The Northeast is considered a mercury "hotspot," due ...
Ecology
Jul 8, 2019
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Overfishing plus climate change equals threat to fisheries
Ecology
Jul 8, 2019
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A tidepool crustacean's ability to survive oxygen deprivation though it lacks a key set of genes raises the possibility that animals might have more ways of dealing with hypoxic environments than had been thought.
Plants & Animals
Jun 20, 2019
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The quest to discover what drove one of the most important evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth has taken a new, fascinating twist.
Earth Sciences
Jun 19, 2019
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A hair-sized probe that can measure key indicators of tissue damage deep in the lung has been developed by scientists.
Engineering
Jun 17, 2019
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Using rare oxygen molecules trapped in air bubbles in old ice and snow, U.S. and French scientists have answered a long-standing question: How much have "bad" ozone levels increased since the start of the Industrial Revolution?
Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2019
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The prime predators of the Baltic Sea at the top of the food web are losing weight, according to a new study that links the deteriorating health of gray seals and cod with changes in bottom-living crustaceans, isopods and ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2019
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