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Researchers identify how queen bees repress workers’ fertility
Researchers from New Zealand's University of Otago have discovered the molecular mechanism by which queen honeybees carefully control worker bees' fertility.
It has long been...
Researchers image brain cells’ reactions to concussive trauma
Using a technique that can image neurons in real time following the application of compressive strain, researchers from Brown University have shown that irreversible...
Discovery of male-harming DNA mutation reinforces ‘mother’s curse’ hypothesis
Mitochondria.Credit: National Institutes of Health
There is new evidence that the "mother's curse" -- the possibility that moms may transmit genes to their children that...
Population boom preceded early farming
This map shows the area covered by a new University of Utah study that concludes a population boom and resulting scarcity of wild foods...
Severe 2015 Indonesian Fire Season Linked to El Niño Drought
In this photo, fires rage in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.Credits: Rini Sulaiman/CIFOR
An especially dry period from July to October in Indonesia, a result of...
Tropical Storm Earl forms in Caribbean Sea
NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured a visible image of Earl at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Aug. 2, 2016. Earl is a small storm. An area...
Warm ocean current reaches surprisingly far south in the Antarctic Weddell Sea
New observations recently published in Nature Communications show that warm deep water also reaches the large Filchner ice shelf in the southern Weddell Sea.
Warm...
Managing uncertainty: How soil carbon feedbacks could affect climate change
There is more than twice as much carbon in the planet's soils than there is in its atmosphere, so the loss of even a...
Space scientists observe Io’s atmospheric collapse during eclipse
An artist’s rendering depicts the atmosphere on Io, Jupiter’s volcanic moon, as it collapses during daily eclipses. Credit: Southwest Research Institute
A Southwest Research Institute-led...
First major database of non-native English
English is the most used language on the Internet, and globally most of the people who speak or write in English are non-native speakers....
Physicists reach lowest temperature ever recorded in solids using laser cooling
UNM Research Assistant Aram Gragossian tests lasers in one of the Department of Physics & Astronomy's optics laboratories. Credit: University of New Mexico
When most...
