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Eastern forests use up nitrogen in soil during earlier, greener springs
Higher demand for nitrogen by trees could mean less nitrogen polluting streams and rivers.Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Andrew Elmore
A warming climate...
Mars rover views spectacular layered rock formations
Curiosity got close to this outcrop on Sept. 9, 2016, which displays finely layered rocks.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in...
Newborn gut microbiome predicts later allergy and asthma, study finds
The microbes living in a baby's gut during its first month of life may directly impact the developing immune system, leading to a higher...
NASA’s THEMIS sees Auroras move to the rhythm of Earth’s magnetic field
An artist's rendering (not to scale) of a cross-section of the magnetosphere, with the solar wind on the left in yellow and magnetic field...
Study details Zika virus disrupting fetal brain development during pregnancy
Magnetic resonance image (MRI) of the fetal brain in a Zika virus infected primate. The large white region is abnormal and indicates an accumulation...
Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated
Two recent models for the formation of the moon, one that allows exchange through a silicate atmosphere (top), and another that creates a more...
Synaptic connectivity motifs contribute to memory storage and retrieval in hippocampus
This is a reconstruction of a pair of synaptically connected CA3 pyramidal neurons. Inset shows a light-micrograph of the single synaptic contact that forms...
Dances with waves: Breakthrough in moving small objects using acoustics
Researchers move multiple objects simultaneously on a metal plate by playing a carefully chosen melody.Credit: Quan Zhou / Aalto University
Researchers of Aalto University have...
Hippo teeth reveal environmental change
Kendra Chritz sampling hippo enamel by kerosene lamplight in Uganda.Credit: Courtesy of Kendra Chritz
Loss of megaherbivores such as elephants and hippos can allow woody...
Hubble peers into the Large Magellanic Cloud
This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way's satellite...
Discovery nearly doubles known quasars from the ancient universe
An artist’s rendering of a very distant quasar courtesy of ESO/M. Kornmesser.
Quasars are supermassive black holes that sit at the center of enormous...
