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Antarctic has seen widespread change in last 50 years, moss study reveals
This photograph shows Green Island moss bank with icebergs in background.
Credit: Matt Amesbury
In 2013, researchers studying mosses and microbes growing at the southern end...
Exposure to BPA potentially induces permanent reprogramming of painted turtles’ brains
Painted turtle eggs were brought from a hatchery in Louisiana, candled to ensure embryo viability and then incubated at male-permissive temperatures in a bed...
Silk proteins paired with renewable wood nanocellulose produces possibly the strongest artificial spider silk...
“The strength of the fiber is significantly better than any human-made, silk-based material to our knowledge, and on the same level as what can...
Natural resistance to malaria linked to variation in human red blood cell receptors
A new study shows that large structural variants in human glycophorin genes, which are unusually common in Africa, are protective against malarial disease.
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Earth’s atmosphere more chemically reactive in cold climates
Becky Alexander in the cold room of the UW's IsoLab with sections of an ice core. Her group is analyzing these samples from Antarctica...
During heat waves, urban trees can increase ground-level ozone
Trees in cities have many benefits but can increase ozone during heat waves.
Credit: © Hai / Fotolia
Planting trees is a popular strategy to help...
Shedding light on Earth’s first animals
Researchers at UC Riverside are studying the world's oldest fossil animal, Dickinsonia, to learn more about the evolutionary history of animals.
Credit: University of California,...
Wild orangutan teeth provide insight into human breast-feeding evolution
Baby orangutan nursing.
Credit: © EBFoto / Fotolia
Biomarkers in the teeth of wild orangutans indicate nursing patterns related to food fluctuations in their habitats, which...
Dams are major driver of global environmental change
Dam in Sabiñanigo town, Spain. There are currently in excess of 70,000 large dams worldwide. With the continuing construction of new dams, more than...
Secrets behind T. rex’s bone crushing bites: T. rex could crush with 8,000 pound...
Tyrannosaurus rex model (stock image).
Credit: © Sergio Martínez / Fotolia
The giant Tyrannosaurus rex pulverized bones by biting down with forces equaling the weight of...
Tiny bubbles help heal broken bones, in pigs
Gene therapy for bone regeneration.
Credit: M. Bez et al., Science Translational Medicine (2017)
Researchers have developed a much needed alternative to bone grafts that could...
