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Climate change to create farmland in the north, but at environmental...
Climate Change to Create Farmland in the North, But at Environmental Costs, Study Reveals
In a warming world, Canada's north may become our breadbasket of...
Antibiotics discovered that kill bacteria in a new way
A new group of antibiotics with a unique approach to attacking bacteria has been discovered, making it a promising clinical candidate in the fight...
Study reveals details of ‘golf ball asteroid’
Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes, and now astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have observed an asteroid so heavily cratered that they are...
New material has highest electron mobility among known layered magnetic materials
All the elements are there to begin with, so to speak; it's just a matter of figuring out what they are capable of—alone or...
Fossilized insect from 100 million years ago is oldest record of...
Beetle parasites clinging to a primitive bee 100 million years ago may have caused the flight error that, while deadly for the insect, is...
Love matters: How parents’ love shapes children’s lives
Parents often put their own relationship on the back burner to concentrate on their children, but a new study shows that when spouses love...
One-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50...
Accurately predicting biodiversity loss from climate change requires a detailed understanding of what aspects of climate change cause extinctions, and what mechanisms may allow...
Half of US deaths related to air pollution are linked to...
More than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of emissions originating outside of the state in which...
Huge bacteria-eating viruses close gap between life and non-life
Scientists have discovered hundreds of unusually large, bacteria-killing viruses with capabilities normally associated with living organisms, blurring the line between living microbes and viral...
Extinct giant turtle had horned shell of up to three meters
Paleobiologists from the University of Zurich have discovered exceptional specimens in Venezuela and Colombia of an extinct giant freshwater turtle called Stupendemys. The carapace...
New class of materials shows strange electron properties
A method to observe a new class of topological materials, called Weyl semimetals, was developed by researchers at Penn State, MIT, Tohoku University, Japan...













