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Are marine organisms evolving to protect their young in response to ocean acidification?
Marine organisms living in acidified waters exhibit a tendency to nurture their offspring to a greater extent than those in more regular conditions.
Researchers at...
Computer scientists find mass extinctions can accelerate evolution
At the start of the simulation, a biped robot controlled by a computationally evolved brain stands upright on a 16 meter by 16 meter...
Astronomers discover new planet orbiting two stars
The artistic concept shows NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft. Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T Pyle
A team of astronomers including a San Francisco State University researcher has discovered...
Low chance of obese people recovering normal body weight
The chance of an obese person attaining normal body weight is 1 in 210 for men and 1 in 124 for women, increasing to...
Human activities are jeopardizing Earth’s natural systems, health of future generations
A new report released by The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health, calls for immediate, global action to protect the health of human civilization...
Poverty’s most insidious damage is to a child’s brain
A new study, published July 20 in JAMA Pediatrics, provides even more compelling evidence that growing up in poverty has detrimental effects on the...
