A detailed study of Easter Island's farming potential reveals the population may have reached 17,500 people in its heyday, which could help unravel the mystery of its giant statues.
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Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui by...
This is a photograph of Mount Hora, which yielded two of the samples - including the oldest one at about 8100 years ago.
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By sequencing the ancient genomes of 15 individuals from different parts of Africa, researchers reporting...
2010 photo of a shoreline in Bay Jimmy, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, impacted by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Oil weakens and kills vegetation, leading to the loss of roots that help hold soil together.
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Will extremely cold winters become more common in North America and Russia?
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When the strong winds that circle the Arctic slacken, cold polar air can escape and cause extreme winter chills in parts of the Northern...
This is a close-up of a tsetse fly.
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Researchers at the University of Bristol have been taking a close-up look at the biting mouthparts of the African tsetse fly as part of ongoing work on the animal...
Global warming.
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It is "extremely unlikely" 2014, 2015 and 2016 would have been the warmest consecutive years on record without the influence of human-caused climate change, according to the authors of a new study.
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UC Santa Cruz researchers worked with Structured Materials Industries to design and build an atomic layer deposition (ALD) system large enough to accommodate telescope mirrors. Andrew Phillips, Nobuhiko Kobayashi, and David Fryauf (l to r) examine the deposition chamber.
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Antarctic regions are natural laboratories to study biodiversity and the impact of climate change.
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Antarctic regions are natural laboratories to study biodiversity and the impact of climate change. In Antarctica some marine ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to...
Factory at sunset in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Significant emission reductions are required if we are to achieve one of the key goals of the Paris Agreement, and limit the increase in global average temperatures to 1.5°C; a...
Extinction risks are greater for animals at the small and large ends of the scale.
Credit: Illustration: Oliver Day, Oregon State University
Animals in the Goldilocks zone -- neither too big, nor too small, but just the right size -- face...
Using CRISPR to create different sets of mutations in a gene promoter called SICLV3 (and in several other promoters) enabled researchers to vary the number of floral organs and locules (gelatinous seed compartments) in tomato, over a wide range....
